Posted on 06/14/2004 9:39:17 AM PDT by hookman
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered on the 27th floor, but there was no evacuation and no cause for alarm, security staff said.
The New York Fire Department's hazardous materials unit was called in "as a precautionary matter" after the powder was found in an office of the U.N. Department of Management.
While the emergency crew was cleaning up the area, a second report was received of a powdery substance next to a U.N. Credit Union cash machine on the first floor, security aides said.
Samples of both substances were taken for analysis and both areas were cleaned up although one office on the 27th floor remained closed, pending a second cleaning, they said.
"There is no cause for alarm. Business can proceed as usual," a security office aide said in a message to staff broadcast on the U.N. headquarters building's public address system.
A hazardous materials unit van, accompanied by several fire trucks and police cars had showed up at the U.N. compound on Manhattan's East Side at about 10 a.m. (1400 GMT).
Have Blix inspect it.
He'll have an answer for us in five years or so.
Has Marion Berry visited recently?
yeah, move along nothing to see here...we'll take care of this right away...
Batman and Robin are supposed to re-constitute them all soon...
flea powder
a little "coke" left over from friday's office party???
I suggest that they smoke it or use it for foot powder.
Of no interest to the inspectors, but noted for an addendum to the report: The strange powder was on a small mirror, laying on the desk. The mirror also held a safety razor blade and a rolled up $100 bill.
Gettin' that great taste of Thallium!
Probably dandruff.
Kofi forgot to take his coke along when he went to the REagan memorial service.
... and that Bill Clinton had been there hyping his fictional book the day before.
My thoughts exactly.
I have a box of Suspicious Powder at home. The label says, "Tide". Not sure what it is. Their is a bag of suspicious powder in the cupboard labeled "Sugar".
It seems we are surrounded by this stuff.
Ban all Powder, it's for the children.
If that was the source, we no it was not the Ambassador from France.
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