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Government Plans War Games to Battle Millennium Bug
(Lisa Hoffman, Reuters/Detroit News)
This updates a story from Nov. 23. "The federal government is gearing up for
top-level war games designed to grapple with possible calamities the
'millennium bug' might wreak in the United States and abroad."
It will be the first time since the Cold War that cabinet secretaries have
gathered to plan responses to a possible crisis. Among the persons "almost
certain" to attend
are Defense Secretary William Cohen, Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna
Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson,
Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, and Jamie Lee Witt, the director of
the
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Clinton Administration expects any Y2Kglitches to be minor. "But they
want to make sure the government is prepared should that forecast be wrong."
Another major "high-level war game" is slated to take place at the Pentagon,
which will involve Cohen and the top brass.
Their focus will be "on how the armed forces might be able to help
communities
in which they are based cope with a crisis, particularly those overseas....
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