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Monday, December 27, 1999
Extensive security in place for party at Times Square
Associated Press
NEW YORK - The manhole covers will be welded shut, six police helicopters will hover overhead and 8,000 officers, some with bomb-sniffing dogs, will be on duty New Year's Eve in and around Times Square.
While publicly downplaying "terrorist hype," New York City officials have made Times Square the focus of an elaborate security plan that puts the nation's biggest metropolis on a virtual war footing for the millennium celebration.
In Times Square alone, as many as 2 million revelers are expected for a 25-hour celebration of lights, lasers and noisemakers.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir said they knew of no specific threats against the city, but the recent arrests of people suspected of extremist connections at U.S.-Canada border crossings in Washington and Vermont have heightened fears of terrorist acts timed to the millennium.
"There are no guarantees, but we can take every precaution that's humanly possible," Safir said in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. "I think the public should come to Times Square, and I think they should not be deterred by all this terrorist hype that is going on."
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