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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...
...raid alert sounded at 7:09--radar had picked up the approach of the 509th Group's weather plane--and an all clear followed at 7:31, after the B-29 departed. Perhaps this apparently harmless sortie lulled the city's civil-defense monitors. In any case, just before 8:15 three more B-29s--the Enola Gay and two escorts--could be seen and then heard flying some 30,000 ft. over Hiroshima. No alarms sounded in time. The radio announcer on duty had received word that three enemy planes had been sighted, but he had momentarily paused...
DIED. DOROTHY MCHUGH, 87, whose career included a stint as a Ziegfeld Follies dancer before reaching its pop-culture apotheosis with the instantly camp cry of "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" in a TV spot for an emergency-alert system; in Philadelphia...
...like to think about it, it's not so much to address the specific incident but use awareness for teaching, learning and education about the resources we have available," Lewis said. "We're going to give a lot of effort to encourage people to be alert and aware of the ways in which one can steer students...
Opposition is also coming from broadcasters, who point out that the networks have already adopted on-air advisories to alert parents to inappropriate programming. Says Lynn McReynolds, vice president of media affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters: "The V chip won't be able to tell the difference between Terminator 2 and Schindler's List. We have problems with any technology that makes a blanket judgment about programming...