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Bush, flanked by wife Barbara, White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and other aides and supporters, conceded defeat just after 11 p.m. EST from a Houston hotel...
...that needs to be doing a better job. "The military is not necessarily the best first response," he said. "But FEMA is much too bureaucratic. We need a more streamlined response that addresses people's concerns more than governmental concerns. People don't understand a DAC or an ERP, EST, DFOS. People at FEMA should be trained in the needs of victims so that if not empathy, they feel sympathy before they get here...
...Figure Travelers to convention 50,000 Volunteers 12,000--15,000 Media 15,000 Delegates 2210 Alternates 2210 Construction workers est. 1000 Hours preparation est. 500,000 Days of preparation 20 Telephone lines 8000 Balloons 225,000 (101.8 per delegate) Carpet 100,000 square feet Sound System Speakers 576 Amplifiers 400 Microphones...
...placid town of Janesville, Wis. (est. pop. 52,000), never asked for a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the Klan considered the town, perched on the Rock River, ripe for recruits. So there in the middle of Rockport Park stood a massive burlap-wrapped, kerosene-soaked cross surrounded by Klansmen, and even a few Klanswomen, their robes billowing in the soft breeze. The loud twang of country music mixed with the angry chants of protesters jousting with police a few hundred yards away: "Death to the Klan...
...what a joyous ride it is, for those with open eyes and minds. As an old Franco-American hit had it, "Ooh, la, la, la, c'est magnifique...