Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hugh Gregg's first priority is to get Bush "up here as often as possible to show that he cares. But what do we do with him? We can't walk him through an operating plant because most of them are down. And how can we have an incumbent President seek votes on unemployment lines...
...well as interviews with more than 100 current and former officials, provides a tantalizing glimpse inside the installation. Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Aboveground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage- treatment plant, with a 90,000-gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter landing pad. The mountain...
...radio-and-television studio was included so that the President or other key officials could address the nation, providing people with emergency instructions and telling them that at least some units of government were intact and carrying on. Diesel engines were installed to generate electricity in an underground utility plant called the power chamber. Refrigerators were brought in for food storage. A cafeteria became part of the complex, as well as a hospital...
...pressure is being placed on Syrian leader Hafez el-Assad, and why Bush wants the Golan to be in Assad's hands is a mystery. Is Assad going to plant Dutch tulips on the mountain's rolling slopes or would it be more along the lines of the 24 North Korean scud missiles Syria purchased in the wake of last year's Gulf...
...supposed to entertain? I've given up on '92 and basically Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court in general. If I can't have good government, I want fun government. I want entertaining budget crises (like my home town investing $25 million in a nuclear power plant that's still not operational and may never be), not endless excuses for deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars. I want administrative idiocy I can laugh at, not inane plans I should fear...