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...world away that life was getting back to normal. It couldn't have started on a worse day. As the President's chopper took off from the White House last Wednesday, the war at home was breaking out all over. The number of people exposed to anthrax on Capitol Hill was mushrooming, and the leaders with whom he had breakfast that morning were thinking of a temporary lockdown on Capitol Hill. Bush called the Vice President to get an update on the victim count as he flew to his airplane. "Dick, Daschle says there are thirty people," said Bush...
...mail chains asserting a plot against malls on Halloween aren't credible, authorities say). The FBI and other agencies have contacted colleges and pro-sports organizations like the NFL to ask them to be watchful. In addition, investigators are worried about iconic American structures such as the Capitol (which has banned large trucks from its vicinity), the Statue of Liberty (closed since Sept. 11) and the Sears Tower (which is working on upgrading the security for its ventilation system...
...management. There are metal detectors at the Liberty Bell; Denver canceled its New Year's Eve celebrations; Ohio called off a corn-husking festival. In Washington, where lawmakers are quietly terrified that the terrorists mean to finish what they started on Sept. 11, officials closed 40 blocks around the Capitol to trucks and taped plastic over Senate office windows. There are enough gas masks in a room off the House chamber for each member and the floor staff, so members are told, leaving five for people in the press gallery, who number in the hundreds...
...Officials now believe the anthrax found in Florida, New York City and Washington are from the same source. This contradicts earlier reports that the spores discovered in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle were "weapons-grade," or professionally prepared. More good news from Capitol Hill: New tests show three of the 31 staffers originally thought to have been exposed to anthrax were actually not exposed...
...read that] in Aedis Ababa, the capitol of Ethiopia, 2000 university students had been arrested for protesting for free speech. Thirty-one were killed in the protest,” Tiruneh said...