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After a five-year wait, comics enthusiasts who don't regularly read Raw, the underground comics' best magazine, can at last read the second half of Maus, Art Spiegelman's Holocaust comic book...
Marina lives in a shantytown in Penalolen. Two of her sons were part of the underground opposition movement. They suffered torture and internal exile. She considers herself fortunate however. Thousands of other individuals who were considered Leftists, Communists, or dissidents were desparecidos ("disappeared" or vanished without a trace...
...Firebird--a giant shadow puppet spectacle based on Stravinsky's ballet suite, presented by the Underground Railway Theater. In the Arlington Center for the Arts in the former Gibbs Junior High School at 41 Foster St., Arlington, one block off Mass. Ave. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets are $6, and are available by calling...
...shaft was dug from the main tunnel to the top of the mountain, and pumps and fans were installed for air circulation. If need be, the entire underground complex could be sealed. The entrance to the facility, according to Fowler, could be closed off with a so-called guillotine gate; behind it is a solid steel door that Fowler estimates is 5 ft. thick, 10 ft. high and nearly 20 ft. across. It rests on wheels and can be opened and closed electronically. Says former FEMA head Becton: "The entrance is such that if they were to pop a nuke...
Even though cold war tensions have eased, Washington planners insist that, along with airborne command centers and underground military installations, Mount Weather remains an essential element in national defense. A former National Security Council staff member says the consensus among people who think about the unthinkable is that Washington is a potential target for nuclear attack -- even outside a cold war framework -- because any foe would be tempted "to decapitate" the U.S. government by killing its leaders. In recent years FEMA has shifted the focus from a potential Soviet attack to one by a Third World nation or even...