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...past the soldiers toting M-16s at the door, the Pentagon's 17 miles of corridors might remind you a little of an inner-city apartment building: every other door is plastered with alarms, fortified latches and ugly combination locks. You would buzz past signs bearing mysterious acronyms--WELCOME ABOARD J3/SMOO--that blur rather than clarify what's cooking behind those doors. Asked what goes on inside, officers get that "Don't ask, don't tell" look--and don't even reply...
Cockpit doors have been hardened and passenger screening tightened, and pilots may soon even get the right to carry guns aboard flights. But one aspect of airline security has not improved since Sept. 11, according to a flight attendants' group: defense training for flight crews. "Every day flight attendants go to work as unprepared for an attack as we were on Sept. 10, 2001," says Patricia Friend, head of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), which represents 50,000 at 26 airlines. Although Congress mandated last November that flight attendants receive cabin-defense training, the AFA claims the training...
After my 45-min. flight, I served as part of an eight-person crew that helped the next passengers get aboard, then followed along in a truck to assist them once the balloon landed. When I was finished riding and crewing, all I wanted to do was go right back up for another ride. I was like a 3-year-old who had just got off the slide for the first time and was tugging on her mom's dress to let her try it again and again...
...other side stand the Pentagon civilians, guys in ties who came into office ready to roll. They are convinced containment has not worked and that America's allies will never come aboard even after new U.N. inspections of Saddam's secret weapons caches-which Iraq said last week it was prepared to consider-inevitably fail. Deemed impractical "theologians" by the Powell camp, this faction is almost unconditionally pro-Israel and regards Saddam, not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as the more urgent regional and global threat...
Upon arrival, it's immediately evident that this is Japan at a more idyllic pace: the captain of the airport ferry is fishing from a large rock while waiting for the next boatload of passengers. Once we are aboard, the local topography takes the stage. Green hills crowned by foggy halos rise from Omura Bay. The ferry lands in Togitsu and a short bus ride brings us south into Nagasaki...