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Bout damned time!Guard troops ordered to Canadian borderSUMMARY:More than 400 National Guard troops will be placed at 43 border crossings between the United States and Canada and U.S. military aircraft will be brought in to patrol the border, the Justice Department announced Sunday. Meanwhile, as Connecticut officials probed the source of the latest anthrax discovery, workers pumped chlorine dioxide gas into the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington in an attempt to kill all traces of the bacteria sent to Majority Leader Tom Daschle. UPDATE:National Guard troops will be posted at 43 U.S.-Canadian border crossings, and military aircraft will patrol the border as well, the Justice Department said. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the Guard is being deployed to relieve Border Patrol personnel overtaxed by heightened security measures since September 11. (Full story) Daschle, D-South Dakota, said Republicans in the House and Senate will have to give some ground before a stalled economic stimulus package can reach President Bush's desk. "We have changed our proposals, we have offered many different procedural routes to accomplish what we both say we want, but at least for now their answer seems to be 'no,'" Daschle said Sunday. (Full story) The decontamination process begun Saturday at the Hart building was the first time it had been attempted to rid such a large space of anthrax, and Environmental Protection Agency officials are hoping that if it is successful, it will be a model for future cleanup. (Full story) Trace amounts of anthrax were found on four pieces of mail-sorting equipment in a postal facility that handled the mail of a woman who died of inhalation anthrax, the United States Postal Service announced Sunday. The same facility processed mail for the town of Seymour, where one residence received a letter that was found to have a trace of anthrax on it. (Full story)