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...Force and SEAL-Team 6 commandos, airmen from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and specially trained U.S. Army Rangers to be part of a backup force in case local police or the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team need help. Most of the 500 commandos are on alert at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but a small contingent, armed with hidden weapons, have been patrolling Olympic sites in civilian garb, on the lookout for anything suspicious. In addition, the Army has bomb-dismantling experts and specialists trained to deal with chemical or biological weapons at the ready in Atlanta...
Despite the false alarm, Mottola said in an interview that citizens should remain on heightened alert...
With the community on heightened alert after Saturday's bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, local authorities were called in to investigate two suspicious bags over the weekend, both of which turned out to be harmless...
...think it has everyone on heightened alert," Mottola said of recent bombings...
...Association. Yet many serious overdoses (and deaths) occur in elderly patients or others who cannot handle the typical amount of a drug, who do not know that they are allergic to it, or who inadvertently create toxic combinations by taking different drugs concurrently. The FDA's proposed "MedGuides" would alert people to such common hazards as taking the allergy medicine Seldane with the antibiotic erythromycin, or from simultaneously taking digitalis and the heart medicine Cardizem. Opponents of the bill say doctors, drug companies and pharmacists can monitor the hazards adequately without new regulations. "Most people are certainly already aware...