Meanwhile, as the debate over personal security for US Congressmen - who typically have little or none - heated up in Washington DC, the US Senate sergeant-at-arms told US television he opposed lawmakers arming themselves against potential threats.

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Now the master tape from the interview has been released as a 70-minute feature film, which is showing for a limited two day engagement (Nov 16-17) in Washington DC and other US cities.

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The six of us arrived at Washington DC's Reagan National Airport, bleary-eyed, flip-flopped and Panama-hatted, ready to set out on what we had dubbed the "Sun, Sand and Stupidity Tour 2010".

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We know the North so-so (because so many of us are transplants), but South of DC, not so well.

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made two urgent recommendations for changes to the DC-10's cargo doors and Douglas assured the authorities that the changes could be made during regular maintenance checks.

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And I want to bring in Major General Kathy Frost at this point, a retired two-star general, who joins us by phone from a conference on women in the military here in Washington, DC.

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