"It is vitally important that the FAA make extra efforts to guard air traffic control facilities because our national security is at stake, " NATCA President John Carr said in a statement.

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And, I really think it was those photographs, the impact of those photographs internationally, during a time of the Cold War, when, the actuality of some of what America didn't talk about, was shown to the world, that that is what made the president act, take federal control of the Arkansas National Guard, and send paratroopers to Little Rock.

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We have a Coast Guard cutter out there conducting command and control, helicopters for surveillance.

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He finished eighth in the title race and was preparing for the 2011 season when taking part in the Ronde de Andorra rally in Italy in a private capacity he lost control of his Skoda Fabia, crashing into a guard rail.

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Italian Coast Guard officials said emergency generators were keeping the ship's control room illuminated and communications equipment such as radios running.

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The Coast Guard closed ports, and the Coast Guard Cutter Northland will be the offshore command-and-control location after the storm.

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SABA, citing sources in Yemen's Coast Guard, said seven other fishermen escaped on a small boat prior to the pirates' taking control of the fishing boats.

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"The boat was trying to recover one passenger who fell down from the boat and later on the boat could not control the momentum and it went down inside the water, " Lt Col Zahid Hasan, a senior Bangladesh border guard official, told the BBC.

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