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...Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1995 could wreak havoc with bridges, tunnels and buildings. Nuclear-power and chemical-manufacturing plants make even more horrifying targets. The 1984 leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, may have killed 3,000. Estimates of the final death toll from the 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant run as high...
From a strict mathematical perspective, the toll of the attacks was easy to translate into local terms. There are only about 7,000 people in Livingston, and if what had happened back East had happened here, almost everyone in the town would be dead. Every house, every office, every vehicle, the schools, the stores, the hospital--all empty. The instinctive rural resentment toward city folk, whose perceived wealth and influence can make country folk feel like sharecroppers or peasants, was swallowed up by that awful calculation. The ghost town is a familiar Western image--just drive up into the hills...
There was the unspeakable death toll in New York and by then the estimates of hundreds more in the Pentagon crash. The former President recalls being profoundly worried about the possibility of an assault on the President, not only because it was his son but because his long years in and around the presidency and the CIA made him especially aware of the importance of the presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack...
...Palestinian leader may be even more dependent on a resumption of dialogue than his Israeli counterparts, precisely because of the toll taken by the intifada on his domestic and international political standing. Arafat may have made more visits to the Clinton White House than any other foreign leader, but the onset of the intifada essentially made him persona non grata in Washington, and suicide bombing attacks emanating from areas under his control have sharply weakened his diplomatic support in the West. On the Palestinian street, the uprising has seen the political center of gravity shift away from Arafat and towards...
...There was the unspeakable death toll in New York and by then the estimates of hundreds more in the Pentagon crash. The former President recalls being profoundly worried about the possibility of an assault on the President, not only because it was his son but because his long years in and around the presidency and the CIA made him especially aware of the importance of the presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack...