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WASHINGTON--A man threatened to blow up the Washington Monument with a truckload of dynamite yesterday, demanding "a national dialogue on the nuclear weapons question." After 10 hours, police killed him in a rain of gunfire when he attempted to drive off in the direction of the White House...
Police said he may have had an accomplice who ran into the monument during the chaotic scene Officers searched the building for three and a half hours after flooding it with tear gas but did not find anyone inside...
During the ordeal, nine people were trap- ped inside the monument for a time, huge government buildings were evacuated and officials worried about the safety of the White House, only six blocks away
...expected that organizing anything to do with the Vietnam War would draw fractious sniping After debates in Congress finally ended last year in permission to build the monument, the proposed design came under fire. When the structure envisioned by first-year Graduate School of Design student Maya Y. Lin was finally completed, some argued that the understand black marble was not "heroic" enough and perpetuated the post-war shame of the veterans, so designers agreed to add the traditional large bronze figure of three soldiers and a flag. Then another group raised objections to the victory-V shape...
...building of the monument, though a step forward, demonstrates the same problem. Vietnam vets made the plans, raised the money, organized the parade, and eventually oversaw the dedication themselves. No one else would do it for them. It is time, however, for someone else--namely the U.S. public and government--to do a little for Vietnam veterans...