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...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 ranger a manila envelope. In a handwritten message on the outside of the envelope he declared his intention to negotiate only with a member of the media, "a single person without dependents...
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...
...first person to reach the van was Special Agent W.H. Seals, who found Mayer barely conscious, mumbling, "They shot me in the head." Inside, explosives experts found no TNT but an ample supply of food and water and a portable TV set. Moments later, under the glare of helicopter searchlights, Mayer died, killed by bullet fragments in the head. His short, unhappy ride was over...
...Western Culture, and he has a pen like vipet's tongue. Trouble with Mr. Vidladhar Surajprasad Naipaul, as Bud Collins would cali him, is that he is way too young as well as way too popular. The average age of the last six winners when they got the TNT laurels is over 71, and Bellow '76 was the kid on the block at 61. A fot at 50, Vidiadhar will have to wait...
...numbers are indeed ambiguous. The Soviets unquestionably are ahead by some measures. Their strategic nuclear weapons have a total explosive power of 7,868 megatons (one megaton equals 1 million tons of TNT), vs. 3,505 megatons for the U.S.; and the Soviets have 2,537 delivery vehicles (missiles, bombers, launching tubes on submarines) to rain those megatons on an enemy, to America's 1,944. But the U.S. still has a clear, though rapidly shrinking, lead in nuclear warheads...