Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR MARCH 1990 IS PRESENTED TO Jim Leusner and Christopher Quinn The Orlando Sentinel In their four-part report, Leusner and Quinn revealed what...
...This "blending" is unique in the United States...
...The award for stories published or aired in April will be announced in the July/August issue...
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...As one military officer commented to the authors, "Someone could pinpoint a storage facility and fire a grenade launcher from an expressway," touching off the armaments...
...But over the years, the company has sold off land to encourage development, transferring to the buyers special development exemptions granted Martin Marietta, Florida's largest industrial employer, to produce what the reporters call "a blending of boomtown Orlando and high-technology armaments...
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...Nominations for stories published or aired in May and June will close July 15...
...Up to 500 armed Patriot missiles, for example, may be stored within half a mile of one retirement community of 5,000...
...When Martin Marietta first bought the land in 1956, the area was indeed remote...
...Leusner and Quinn make a strong case that Martin Marietta's precautions against fire and terrorists are flimsy...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR MARCH 1990 IS PRESENTED TO Jim Leusner and Christopher Quinn The Orlando Sentinel In their four-part report, Leusner and Quinn revealed what Orange County, Florida officials claimed to be completely unaware of: Martin Marietta, with the blessing of the Department of Defense, is storing an unspecified number of warheads, rocket motors, and missiles—possibly as much as 1.4 million pounds of weapons—in what it calls the "Remote Area," within 10 miles of Walt Disney World and downtown Orlando...
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Vol. 22 • June 1990 • No. 5
