Schell taken aback by invitation's timing
Local News : Thursday, September 13, 2001
Aides to Seattle Mayor Paul Schell were stunned yesterday when they opened an envelope containing an invitation from New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The invitation was for a conference next month on disaster preparedness and included sessions on terrorism, major-event planning and "major building collapses with implications."
The location: 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building that collapsed Tuesday under the falling debris of the center's twin towers.
"I had nothing but goose bumps," said Schell's spokesman, Roger Nyhus, on seeing the invitation.
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