Word: airport
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...cyberwar revolution, however, poses serious problems for the U.S. Some are ethical: Is it a war crime to crash another country's stock market? More perilous are the security concerns for the U.S., where a tyrant with inexpensive technology could unplug NASDAQ or terrorist hackers could disrupt an airport tower. Giddy excitement over infowar may be shaken by an electronic Pearl Harbor. Last year the government's Joint Security Commission called U.S. vulnerability to infowar "the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century...
...suitors began paying court months ago. When H. Ross Perot stopped by Hilton Head, South Carolina, last year, his "phone pal" Lamar Alexander, the former Governor of Tennessee who would soon become a Republican candidate for President, personally rushed out to the airport to meet him and drive him to the waterside home where the Governor was vacationing. There, over iced tea in a living room overlooking Calibogue Sound, Alexander, in his khakis, and Perot, in his business suit, indulged in some plain talk. "Ross," Alexander said, "if you do what you did last time, we'll get Clinton again...
Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced a national security alert at all U.S. airports. TIME's Doug Waller reports that the decision was prompted by several concerns: "The extradition of Mousa Abu Marzuk, the suspected Hamas terrorist, the imminent verdict in the World Trade Center trial in New York City, and the Pope's plans to visit Baltimore and New York in October." This is the first national alert since the Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings...
...Tinian, a 39-sq-mi. island in the Marianas some 1,500 miles south of Japan, U.S. forces had constructed the largest airport in the world, including four parallel, 8,500-ft.-long runways designed for B-29 Superfortresses. Several of the incendiary-bomb raids on Japanese cities staged by Major General Curtis LeMay's XXI Bomber Command began and ended in the Marianas. Members of the 509th unit started arriving at Tinian in June. On July 26, components of Little Boy, the uranium-based bomb that was scheduled to be dropped first, reached Tinian aboard the U.S. warship Indianapolis...
...travel and mail deliveries throughout California were disrupted when the nation's most notorious and elusive mail bomber, known as the Unabomber, threatened in a letter he sent the San Francisco Chronicle to blow up an unspecified airliner at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials maintained tight airline and postal security despite a second letter from the Unabomber to the New York Times boasting that the threat was a hoax -- in his words, "one last prank." In yet a third communication at week's end, the bomber said he would desist from further killing attempts if the Times or Washington Post...