WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

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to San - Diego Hartor, officials have , boarded and searched more than 300 vessels since the attacks, the Coast Guard said. Most of those AII ofa Sudden, . Continued ^romPegeM boats were recreatiOnaL to Texas, toe Port of Corpus Chris­ A Jittery Notion at conceits,, baseball games,- offices a^ synagogues at the start of the ti, the gateway to large petrochemi­ cal refineries, has “doubled the Jewish ffigh Holy Days are now sub­ watch,” said John LaRue, toe port Of Checkpoints ject in many cases to the same kind of^secnrity as airports. Backpacks, authority’s executive director. “Where we had one person sto- kmves and weapons of any sort are tioned at a particular location, we By TIMOTHY EGAN forbidden in many public places. Ma­ puttwo,” he said. “We’ve added peo­ jor League Baseball banned parking ple where we didn’t have them.” With National Guard reservists within 100 feet of stadiums and or­ Governors and mayors around the guarding dams and utilities. Coast dered more uniformed officers, pre- country have taken steps to review Guard cutters holding up normal game inspections of stadiums and emergency procedures and reintorce vessel traffic in major ports and irspections of deliveries. public gatherings shadowed by pa­ js Fans who attend the Univereity of security. The New York Legislature trols in the air and bomb-sniffing NebraskarRice football game in Ne­ passed la bill today mOdestly extend- dogs on the ground, a swell of home­ braska oh Thursday, the first major mg wiretapping rules in cases of land defense not seen since World oetlege game since the attacks, will ^pectedterrorists. War II rose across the nation yester­ be told not to even approach the For how, toe pubUc seems to be day in response to last week’s terror­ stadium with bags, containers, um­ accepting toe new restrictions on ist attacks. brellas or coolers. Coolers will also work told travel. At the forefront of the new defense he banned at Nascar events. “Two weeks ago, if you’d have measures are Coast Guard patrols CWhile major office buildings be­ suggested some of these measures, and Army and Air Force reservists gan screenii^ packages, mail and” people would have said to stop acting with a mission to look within the iSsitbrs, few took as drastic a step as like Big Brother,” said Timothy Di- United States for signs of terror. The one taken by the John Hancock Ob­ moff, owner of a corporate security. patrols are searching commercial servatory, in Boston. Officials.closed company in Akron, Ohio. “Now, It’s, and recreational boats, flying mis­ the observatory, on the 60th floor of sions over major cities and helping the company’s main tower. 'How fast bah you do it?’ ” police the borders. •:“Every year, more than 400,000 Mr, Dimoff stod he had been del­ “We have been violated in a way people, virtually all of them unknown uged .with requests by rampahies that the continental United States toi us, visit the observatory,” said looking to overhaul their security. has never before seen,” said John JohnHeavey, director of security for Despite toe new security, some Goheen, a spokesman for the Nation­ Hancock. “Unfortunately, once they restrictions were lifted yesterday. al Guard Association, “and the re­ are inside, it is very difficult to coo- The Federal Aviation Administra­ sponse is a new kind of homeland tfcol or limit'their access to other tion allowed commercial airlines to defense.” parts of the building.” resume carrying mail and cargo. All nuclear power plants and most --The Coast Guard, which closed Also, the agency allowed small crop hydroelectric dams are operating Ntew York Harbor to recreational dusters to return to toe skies. with their highest levels of security, In Chicago, home of toe nation’s with beefed-up patrols. Seventeen second-^busiest airport, toe public members of the National Guard were deployed yesterday to security them into major, ports. it. is seemed edgy abeut ail the new police checkpoints at Hoover Dam, replac­ stopping smaH bos^; ttfe TStose and.militarypresence. ing Interior Department guards that niieasures, part of a cail oa Sunday “People are p^cking.and doing have been at the checkpoints since by Transportation Secretary Nor- thingstheynormto^wouldmGtao, ” the attacks in New York and at the man Y. Mineta to activate reservist Officer MatthewJackson otti» Ctoi- Pentagon on Tuesday. portsecurityunitsin Americanhar- cago police said, telling of a case in Throughout the country, new pro­ bors, also establish a 500-yard secn which toe police were called to re­ tections for transportation and food rity zone around Navy ships.. . move three people who were so supplies have been put in place. In “We have never done these -khids frightened that they had locked Kansas, state authorities debated offsecurlty measures, to this extern, themselves in an airport restroona. whether to institute procedures to my time in our history,” sald. Gary prevent “bioterrorism,” or toe “The bottom line,” he sald, “is Rfves, a (toast Guard spokesman.^ peopleneed to understand you can no threat to contaminate livestock or New York. Coast Guard officials crops with lethal pathogens. ItMiger come ahd^.® you please.” have authorized the new steps to be Nine germ warfare National te.place for at least nine months. Guard units, in their first deploy­ Boat traffic was somewhat-nsEre ment ever, have been sent to select normal ye^erday in Boston Harbor, locations. The routines of public life wtuch was closed on Sunday wJdle the Coast Guard swept the port and Continued on Page B5 piers for bombs. The Coast Guard had received two bomb threats, offi- cialssaid. Theclosing kept-twolnxu- ly ocean Oners, the (Jueen Ehzabetti nc|T7me^ 2 and toe Caronia, walting ; outside the harbor,. -- - —“ -■ q-iq-a/

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