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The NYT does report that a second videotape, released yesterday, supports the government's claim that the tear gas canisters did not penetrate the bunker, and that Sen. John D. Danforth, a Republican from Missouri, has agreed to lead Reno's investigation into a possible FBI cover-up.
Though the FBI director and Attorney General Janet Reno have ordered a renewed inquiry into the events, they still deny that the tear gas canisters could have caused the blaze--they were fired, apparently to no effect, hours before the fire began.
Instead, "America is now spending $7 billion a year defending itself against backpack nuclear bombs, canisters of nerve gas and petri dishes of germ weapons planted in crowded cities by an as-yet-unknown adversary."
The NYT has the most on the tape's contents, said by the paper to be a soundtrack of an infrared video made from an aircraft when the tear gas canisters were launched at the bunker.
But of course Bye Bye Birdie was the product of an era when America's way of dealing with teen-agers was to encase them in glass-lined steel canisters, truck them to Nevada, and bury them several miles underground in abandoned salt mines.