We weren't already doing that?Last month we noted how it had taken the government three years after 9/11 to create a defense command to protect Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C. Now comes news of three other painfully slow responses to clear danger. Almost immediately after 9/11, administration critics began to point out the need to protect air cargo air cargo: see aviation. from terrorists. Three years and two months later came this report from the AP: "The government unveiled a plan yesterday to tighten air cargo security by checking the backgrounds of workers who handle freight The price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier. Freight is also applied to the goods transported by such carriers. The liability of a carrier for freight damaged, lost, or destroyed during shipment is determined by contract, statute, or , and to restrict In the C programming language, the data pointed to by a pointer declared with the restrict qualifier may not be pointed to by any other pointer. This allows for more effective optimization. access to sectors of the airport used in loading cargo." |
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