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...program, to be administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), class for the evacuation of more than 150 million people--every one who lives near one of America's 61 military "counterforce" targets or in any of the 319 U.S. cities with a population of more than 50,000. FEMA's plan assumes that the Soviets will give us at least a week's notice before they start shooting: Americans are supposed to begin evacuating their cities as soon as our intelligence reports that Soviets have begun to desert their urban areas...
...city dwellers are to drive in their cars to "host areas" in rural America. According to FEMA, food shortages will present no problem for the refugees. They can "probably" find enough to eat in the host areas, and "we might ask people to take food with them," says FEMA spokesman James Holton. FEMA also plans to spend $600 million annually for the next seven years to supply rural areas with telephones and radios, medicine, and radiation detectors--all for the post-holocaust comfort of their city brethren...
Once these supplies are "deployed," the "resuscitation of life," should be relatively easy. Nor is FEMA concerned about what would happen to residents of cities of New York, who lack the getaway cars FEMA is counting on. "New York City is an oddity." Holton notes. "It is not a typical situation." "If everything is in place and we have enough time to do it," says Holton, about 80 percent of the American people could survive a full-scale nuclear...
Many of the ideas developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seem starkly irrational. The Washington, D.C., evacuation plan, for example, calls for people driving cars with odd-numbered license plates to defy human nature by waiting for those with even-numbered plates to leave the city first. As for the bureaucracy, the Postal Service will issue postage-free "emergency change-of-address cards"; the Department of Housing and Urban Development has a procedure for requisitioning houses "whose owners have disappeared;" and the Department of Agriculture has a food-rationing system to distribute, among other things, six eggs...
...problem began when 112,000 Cubans arrived in the space of 48 days-a logistical nightmare that flummoxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the bureau charged with coordinating the resettlement process. Says William Combs, chief spokesman for the FEMA: "We had to set up while it was still happening." One key problem turned out to be a communications snafu between the federal agency and the private organizations that find homes for the refugees after they are cleared. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had approved 4,000 Fort Chaffee refugees for resettlement after concluding that they were not criminals. Simultaneously...