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While the events of last week achieved one goal terrorists usually aim for--to sow a widespread sense of fear and uncertainty--they also raised the public's consciousness about anthrax in a way no public-service announcement ever could. Just as it would be harder to hijack a plane today than it was a month or so ago, it's now going to be a lot harder to take Americans by surprise with envelopes full of powder. If this really was another bin Laden-inspired attack, America may be safer than we think...
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...your kids are with you. Closed areas are more dangerous than open ones because they magnify the power of explosives. After public buses started blowing up, I steered clear of them in traffic. I drove with my doors locked after terrorists, escaping from a bus they had tried to hijack, commandeered a woman's car; Israeli soldiers shot them--and her--dead...
...chances of such an attack happening anytime soon are remote, most of the terrorism experts consulted by TIME agree. For starters, it takes a lot more money to build, research or steal a weapon of mass destruction than to hijack a plane or unleash a truck bomb. It also takes a lot more brainpower. Says Amy Smithson, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington: "I can sit here and dream up thousands of nightmare scenarios, but there are a lot of technical and logistical hurdles that stand between us and those scenarios...
...question to the nation's air transport industry and to the Federal Aviation Administration is, Where were you? Explain to us, please, how a platoon of terrorists could hijack four jetliners? The American people demand not only a tightening of airport security nationwide, but we also demand the resignation, even prosecution for criminal negligence, of everyone responsible for allowing this outrage to come to pass. RICHARD A. RIVERA Plantation...