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1 awaited, with perverse anxiety, the millisecond’s march past midnight to ignite a covey of confused MIRV-tipped rockets from a Siberian launch site, or for a Tokyobased nuclear power plant to meltdown when its cooling system decided that it did not exist in the year 1900. I watched for street riots in Bombay, power failures in Urkutsk,
See Y2K, Page A6
Plans for a
trail tracing
the footsteps
of local Civil
War troops
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