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BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. - UPDATE 10:00 a.m. Jan. 27 The cause of a gas line explosion in Brooke County remains under investigation. Enterprise Products, L.P., released firefighters around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 26, but many were told to remain on standby for hours. Authorities shut off power in the area of Arch Hill Road in Colliers, WV, with some residents receiving their power through a substation. Follansbee Fire Chief Larry Rea said the weather helped the fire from becoming more of a problem. Enterprise Products, L.P., said they are working with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to determine the...

WASHINGTON - Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of "the Farewell dossier": how a CIA campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia -- all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss -- helped us win the Cold War. Weiss worked down the hall from me in the Nixon administration. In early 1974, he wrote a report on Soviet advances in technology through purchasing and copying that led the beleaguered president -- detente notwithstanding -- to place restrictions on the export of computers...