After they had quickly repaired a telephone
hotline to Moscow, things went well on the first
shift earlier this week, the officers said.

Dispatch Online

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 01, 2000

Answers

Deputy US Secretary John Hamre said: "They will see, frankly, nothing on the screens because we know that Russia won't be doing anything crazy that night, and we won't be doing anything ourselves. So I think they won't be seeing much of anything."

I guess Moscow was simply low on fireworks and dipped into the old scud stockpile?

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), January 01, 2000.