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...capital. With a 100-megaton weapon, a helicopter anywhere within 50 miles of the White House would have been destroyed in flight, the report noted. There were also unexpected hazards. During one doomsday exercise, Eisenhower was driven by convoy from Washington. As he neared the site, a truck loaded with pigs entered the narrow road. The convoy halted and authorities forced the truck to inch backward up the mountain and past the site's entrance. Eisenhower laughed that such elaborate plans could be ruined by pigs...
...National / Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation of these and other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility, if there is adequate warning time. A second group of papers would leave the capital by truck sometime after the so- called Freedom Documents of Group I had reached safety. Among the Group II materials: the log of the U.S.S. Monitor, medical records relating to President Lincoln's assassination, the Japanese surrender documents and an 1804 map of Lewis and Clark's trek across North America. The National...
...This is still a labor town!" That's the sort of headline that could well have run in Pittsburgh -- if only the city's two major dailies weren't shut down by a strike. To protest a plan to cut 450 of 605 Teamster positions, delivery-truck drivers walked out on May 17 against the Pittsburgh Press Co., which publishes the Pittsburgh Press (circ. 209,000 daily, 556,000 Sunday) and prints and distributes the separately owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (circ. 154,000 daily...
Washington decided to crack down last month. CIA Director Robert Gates visited King Hussein at his Aqaba retreat on the Red Sea to remind him of his responsibilities. It was an appropriate venue for the mission; the bulk of the illegal cargoes that are eventually trucked into Iraq enter Jordan via ships docking at Aqaba. Confronted with the CIA'S evidence of cross-border smuggling, however, Hussein has finally ordered officials to stop the trade. Truck traffic from Jordan to Iraq has since declined by a third. In Amman last week, Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged a "reduced leakage...
...Liquors was one of thousands of local businesses that were looted in South Central Los Angeles last April. Today the Korean-owned convenience store is back to normal. But outside in the parking lot, just yards from where white truck driver Reginald O. Denny was nearly beaten to death, another minority enterprise has sprung up. It is a makeshift stand selling $5 and $10 T shirts emblazoned with the slogan: JUSTICE FOR THE LA 4. LET MY PEOPLE GO. And who are the L.A. 4? They are the very men who ripped Denny from the cab of his truck, then...