Unnamed Administration sources reported that Dan Foster said:
Probably part of the reasons why the FAA keeps its critical centers such as the ARTCC centers outside of a metropolitan area, such as the Chicago ARTCC is (from memory) about 30-45 minutes west of the Chicago.
Note that ARTCC dates from the Cold War era when many things, inc. CIA HQ were decentralized. (Of course, the weapons soon got bigger & more numerous, rendering such moot.) Also, it created vast headaches for TPC, as She had to run lines, lots of lines, to places like Oberlin OH and Leesburg VA that in the late 50's likely had a pair of party lines or so... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433