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Intelligence services were picking up enough chatter about a terrorist attack to scare the pants off top officials. On June 22, the Defense Department put its troops on full alert and ordered six ships from the Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, to steam out to sea, for fear that they might be attacked in port. U.S. officials thought an attack might be mounted on American forces at the nato base at Incirlik, Turkey, or maybe in Rome or Belgium, Germany or Southeast Asia, perhaps the Philippines--anywhere, it seems, but in the U.S. When Independence Day passed without incident, Clarke...
...plant produces steam by burning oil and is primarily used for heating Harvard’s buildings. The steam is distributed throughout the campus by a series of underground tunnels...
...Carlson, a member of the Riverside Study Committee, said the steam plant purchase was expected, but that he would have liked more notice from Harvard about its intentions with the plant...
Thomas E. Vautin, Harvard’s associate vice president for facilities and environmental services, said Harvard currently has no plans for using the site, but simply purchased it due to the University’s interest in keeping control over its steam...
This is not the first time the University has ventured into the utilities business. The University built and operated from 1985 to 1998 the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which supplied steam, electricity and chilled water to Harvard’s Longwood Campus and to many surrounding buildings...