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Glass, [i]be[/i] consolidated and steel were not the alone things shattered by the explosion in Oklahoma City onward April 19. With them went scores of lives, families and the idea, for most numerous Americans, that any place in the rural parts is safe from acts of random violence.

Countles newspapers and magazines have lamented the los of innocence for America caused through the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building. if it were not that municipal officials must do more than philosophize about the damage done to the nation's psyche. They must determine if the desire for increased security should translate into real dollars wearied on upgrading building integrity, training police in anti-terrorism techniques or taking other precautions.

UNDERSTANDING THE moot point

Earlier this year, the Rand Institute, Santa Monica, Calif., released a report onward domestic terrorism that was the flow of two years of close attention ending just before the World Trade Center bombing in