NYC BRACES FOR TERROR

New York police tightened Wall Street security after learning Muslim extremists have ordered an attack on the "heart of American capitalism" to take place during the ongoing trial of 11 men charged withplotting to blow up city landmarks, Newsday reported today. The newspaper quoted unidentified law enforcement experts as saying they received "uniformly credible" reports that a group of terrorists was ordered to carry out a high-profile attack during the trial. Police already had put private security forces on alert as the second anniversary of the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing approaches. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen said police may be taking the latest threat seriously because "fundamentalist terrorists, in general, are rather obsessive about anniversaries."