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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baltimore, members of the city council listened last week as Civil Defense Chief William Codd outlined a proposal to move more than a million residents to West Virginia, if given 72 hours' notice of a nuclear attack. People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First, Grab a Crowbar . . . | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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