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...friends did not bicycle all the way: they hitched a ride with a pickup truck as they crossed a tunnel near the Chesapeake Bridge...
...week's flurry, the White House became more protected and yet more of a magnet for intrusion. Only three days after Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was abruptly closed to vehicular traffic as a caution against a truck-bomb attack, the first of two interlopers challenged the security sytem. A troubled graduate student in psychology carrying an old, unloaded pistol climbed the 8-ft.-high iron fence on the east side of the White House on Tuesday night and rushed 60 yds. across the grounds. In the struggle to subdue him, a guard fired a shot that...
...vulnerable Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the first response was to suggest that she be moved to the south side, where the huge lawn is a buffer. But secret reports of threats to the President and his family and the chilling calculations of the damage from a truck bomb were overwhelming. "It had to be done," said Coleman. "It would have been irresponsible not to have taken the action...
...former fashion-magazine editor wistfully recalls the loot that poured into her office during the Christmas season. "We got lovely things," she says. "Lots of stuff. Leather bags, champagne, a traveling pouch, scarves, cashmere sweaters. A truck had to come to my house twice to deliver it all." This woman figures that within a month she pulled in some 200 gifts. Retail value: around...
Clinton agreed, for the first time in history, to ban vehicular traffic from a two block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The building is vulnerable to a truck bomb, like that used in Oklahoma, which could injure scores of people and seriously damage the structure. An estimated 26,000 cars and buses will have to be rerouted each...