Quoted from the "Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution"
July 10, 1994.  This article appeared in the Local News section
on page C2.  The article is found on the top right corner of the
page in the subsection "NEWS BRIEFS".

             NEWS BRIEFS

    "Police and GBI deny explosions, gunshots in Midtown by them"

    Tom Roberson didn't think to duck, but then he didn't expect the
 Kinko's on Peachtree Street to be in the middle of a war zone
 Saturday.

   Roberson said he heard what sounded like gunfire and bombs
 going off in a vacant building at Peachtree and 5th streets shortly
 before 2 p.m. -- then the window he was sitting beside shattered.

    "I was sitting on a chair six inches from where either a bullet
 or a bomb fragment came through the window," Roberson said.

    Roberson said he saw men in full battle gear on top of a
 building across Peachtree Street and could hear automatic gunfire
 and detonations as he left.

    Atlanta police said the exercise was conducted by the GBI but
 GBI spokesman John Bankhead said his agency did not conduct an
 exercise at that location.

    Kinko's manager Diane Vreeland said plainclothes officers would
 not tell her what type of training exercises were being conducted,
 or by whom, but that they were not the first held in the empty
 buildings.

    "About a year ago, they set off a bomb over there and scared
 everybody to death," Vreeland said.  "Today's explosion was so
 loud my employees thought it was in the building.

    Adding insult to near injury, Roberson said a plainclothes
 officer "began laughing and playing it down" when he complained.

    Kinko's employee Joyce Carter said she was surprised when police
 were rude to Roberson.  "The police officers were giving our
 customer a hard time because he was upset," Carter said. "Can you
 believe that?"

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[Two days later. . . . . ]

Appearing in "The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution" on
Tuesday, July 12, 1994 in the Local News section on Page B6 under
"Law & Order"... "Metropolitan Public Safety Report" was the
following article.

ATLANTA: Midtown explosions part of military training. The
"automatic weapons fire" and explosions that echoed around an
abandoned state office building on Peachtree Street in Midtown
Saturday afternoon, cracking a window in a nearby business, was a
military urban training exercise, according to Atlanta police.

Maj. Wayne Mock, head of special operations, said military units he
would not identify performed "simulated hostage rescue and life
saving" exercises for several days late last week.  He refused to
provide details except that the training, in contrast to similar,
larger scale maneuvers in Midtown last summer, did not involve
helicopters.

Employees of a Kinko's copy center at 793 Peachtree Street Saturday
saw men in battle gear atop the 800 Peachtree Building and heard the
sound of gunfire from the building when a window cracked from "a
bullet or a bomb fragment," said Kinko's employee Tom Roberson.

Mock said neither Atlanta police nor state law enforcement agencies
were involved in the exercise, only military. The Defense Department
will pay for the damage to the window, acting through the APD
(Atlanta Police Department), Mock added.