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...number of bomb threats and suspicious packages around campus kept police officers busy and tensions running high this weekend...
...Several bomb threats, in addition to general security concerns, forced the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to maintain a heightened state of vigilance this weekend with extra officers on duty and extra postings to protect specific buildings...
...bomb threat forced the evacuation of Holyoke Center on Friday morning, and later in the day a threat at Harvard Medical School forced the evacuation of several buildings. Yesterday afternoon, police responded to unspecified threats at Maxwell Dworkin and at HUPD headquarters at 29 Garden St. In addition, HUPD responded to numerous reports of suspicious packages this weekend as University affiliates exercised caution in the wake of last week’s events...
...press conference last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft stated that the hijackers used knives and cardboard cutters, and that one group may have had a small bomb. Before Sept. 11, it was common for airport security agents to allow passengers to carry uninspected cell phones or small pocket knives with blades up to four inches long. Of the new security measures announced in the wake of the attacks, only the ban on metal knives would have interfered with the recent hijackings. The ending of curbside check-in and the restriction of boarding areas to ticket-holding passengers may serve...
After grounding all flights for four days following Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks, Logan Airport reopened Saturday at 5 a.m. to armed black-clad state troopers, bomb-sniffing dogs, no curbside check-ins, no knives in airport restaurants and passengers like the Wettsteins who tried to ignore concern with a quiet, dogged determination to continue on with their lives...