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...Montgomery's economic endurance is the nearby Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, the largest in the nation, with 28,000 employees and a payroll of $968 million a year. As part of its post-cold war consolidation, the Pentagon in July officially merged the Air Force Systems Command and the Logistics Command into a new Air Force Material Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson...
...nudged the White House when the reality of the damage finally sank in. "I don't think it's wise to declare martial law," says Fascell, "but when we know we have a catastrophe headed our way, we should have a highly visible disaster czar with a definite command structure to deal with it early on, and obviously that's the military...
...without declaring martial law, even the military cannot impose its will on a civilian area. Unlike Desert Storm, there is no unified command, no General Norman Schwarzkopf. The Army, for instance, promised to have tent cities for 20,000 up and running by the first weekend after Andrew. But for the next week military and local jurisdictions quarreled over sites, facilities, building codes and, in the case of Florida City -- a city virtually wiped out by the hurricane -- a federal demand to kick in 10% of the cost...
...struggle to be a Republican after the gubernatorial debacle in 1986," Lage says. "But now with Governor Weld in office, we command a great deal more respect...
...CAMPAIGN: Clinton's High Command...