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...stories of poor, homeless people who testified before a Congressional panel just before Christmas. The tales included people sleeping in Salvation Army clothing deposit boxes and pretending they had sick relatives in order to enjoy the warmth of hospital waiting rooms. The vignettes were introduced as "the most enduring monument to Reagan's President--the creation of a subculture of misery...
...monument in question is Thomas Ball's Emancipation. a bronze statue created in 1874. The huge artwork depicts a majestic President Abraham Lincoln, armed with his famous Proclamation, benevolent hand outstretched, in the act of liberating a barely clothed Black salve. The bondsman who humbly kneels before the Great Emancipator, his manacles finally broken, seems unable to comprehend his new found freedom and elevated social status. Local Black groups, offended by the paternalistic relationship implied by the statue, have asked that it be moved to an out-of-sight location...
...began at 9:30 last Wednesday morning. A white 1979 Ford van with Florida plates drove past startled U.S. park police and stopped facing the main entrance of the Washington Monument. Emblazoned on its side was his message, #1 PRIORITY: BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. A man in a dark blue jumpsuit and a black motorcycle helmet with a visor covering his face emerged from the van, brandishing a menacing-looking black box. He announced that his van contained 1,000 Ibs. of TNT with which he threatened to reduce the monument to "a pile of rocks." He brusquely handed a park...
Meanwhile, FBI explosives experts concluded that the black box with the antenna clutched by Mayer was a miniature radio transmitter fully capable of detonating an explosion. Although the blast from 1,000 Ibs. of TNT would probably have only scarred the marble face of the monument, it could have sent out a concussive wave creating an arc of destruction from the White House to the Potomac. Seven nearby museums were evacuated, and a White House luncheon given by President Reagan was moved out of the room facing the monument...
...ranking police officer commanded that under no circumstances should the van be allowed out of the monument grounds. As FBI Special Agent Kenneth Schiffer Jr. later noted, "He could have headed for the White House." At 2:25 p.m., Mayer allowed the hostages inside the monument to leave. As dusk settled, he seemed prepared to spend the night. Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk. A volley of shots from police marksmen rang out; the truck swerved and tipped over...