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...office hadn't told anybody to get tested or treated and hadn't even warned them about the symptoms. By week's end, 35 postal facilities had been tested, and the U.S. Capitol police had announced that anthrax had been found in three more congressional offices, all in the Longworth House Office Building. Privately, Bush advisers in the Capitol were using words like "fiasco" and "failure" to describe the White House handling of the anthrax crisis. Even Republican Congressmen were shaking their heads. "I think people are much more supportive of the Administration's handling of the terrorism abroad than...
...building, where Senator Daschle?s office is located, in order to fumigate the entire structure with chlorine dioxide gas, a substance proven to kill anthrax bacteria. The treatment would keep the building off-limits for at least two weeks, but would preserve paperwork and computers. Testing continues at the Longworth office building; employees are expected to return sometime next week...
...meantime, there's a civil defense movie staffers can go see which is short on information but long on frightening scenarios. "It will scare the bejesus out of you," said one staffer. In one frame someone is entering the mailroom of the Longworth Building with a packet strapped inside his jacket and in the next computer-generated frame the Longworth Building blows up. It?s good for democracy that member of Congress aren?t getting special treatment. But how good is it for the Republic that they?re getting little treatment at all? Let?s hope the task force gets...
...older folks who are computer literate remember the impossibility of exchanging information in computer form. Gates and his team substantially eliminated the obstacles. The dismemberment of his empire would take us back to the old days of incompatibility and frustration. Chaos may be around the corner. ROBIN T. GREENWOOD Longworth, England...
...speech was one thing all speeches want to be. It was historic. It changed things. Alice Roosevelt Longworth once explained the scandal-plagued President Warren Harding to a friend: "Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob." For six years, Bill Clinton's countrymen have thought that for all his messiness and melodrama, he was a basically good fellow, our Bubba, our flawed and favored good ole boy. But after this speech, with its sullen anger and trimming, a chord may have been broken, an estrangement begun. Something tells me "He's not a slob...