Word: marshalling
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...game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly out of hand. Within...
...mind’s eye. The general skepticism with air travel has, I think, already been discussed by those more insightful than I; they have identified the weaknesses in our nation’s airport security system and detailed specific flaws in the system from a skimpy air marshal program to heavily underpaid security workers. What I haven’t heard anyone discuss is the general uneasiness I feel with doing what everyone says we should be doing, namely moving...
...Israelis do it? For one thing, El Al puts at least one armed, plainclothes sky marshal on all its flights. One such agent foiled a hijack attempt over Holland in 1970. During El Al flights, the cockpit door, made of reinforced steel strong enough to repel fire from a handgun, remains locked...
...game for armchair strategists. A dozen experts gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for two days in June for a germ-warfare assault on America's heartland. The exercise was called Dark Winter. The scenario: Oklahoma, Georgia and Pennsylvania have been deliberately targeted with smallpox virus. The mission: to marshal the full resources of the Federal Government and limit the damage. But even though the players included seasoned leaders--former Senator Sam Nunn acting as the President, former presidential adviser David Gergen as National Security Adviser, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating playing himself--the situation got quickly out of hand. Within...
...It’s certainly an idea that needs to be considered. All ideas should be on the table. They need to be sifted out and the practicable and effective ones should be implemented,” he says. “An air marshal could probably cover several flights a day, but you’d need to have more than one, because if one of the terrorists starts doing something, and the marshal goes over, he’d be promptly attacked in the back by terrorist number...