In Terre Haute, More Waiting Is Frustrating; Police, Schools and Businesses Scramble to Rearrange Logistics

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 12, 2001| Author: Anne Hull and William Claiborne | Copyright information

The town that has spent months bracing for the first federal execution in 38 years was reeling today after Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's announcement that Timothy McVeigh's death by injection would be delayed.

For the extra waiters hired to work at Applebee's, the law enforcement officers who were preparing for 12-hour shifts and the 33,000 Vigo County students who had been given next Wednesday off, today's news from Washington touched off logistical contortions.

"It's frus...