VILNIUS – On the afternoon of July 21, none of the residents living in or around the coastal city of Klaipeda even noticed the effects of a nearby "major earthquake," which was said to have caused extensive damage to the port facility, railways and bridges. Though electricity and water were supposedly knocked out, only the multinational military forces participating in the Baltic Challenge '98 exercises displayed concern. The Klaipedans' disinterest was not based on any apathetic attitudes towards calamity and mayhem, but rather on the fact that the "disaster" was merely a scenario situatio...
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