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...Fallon, who has logged over 1,600 aircraft carrier landings at sea, has a prickly side and can be demanding with subordinates (though in recent years he's worked to smooth out the rough edges). One of the first things he did upon assuming command of the Pacific theater was order his staff to haul out the war plans for North Korea and other potential flashpoints in the region to probe whether they were credible. Aides say he'll take the same critical approach to war strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan...
...causes them to lose body heat. Unlike some other animals, cattle won't keep hydrated by eating snow. Nor will they turn around to follow their own paths through snow already traversed. While some reports have said the crisis has passed, a spokeswoman for the National Guard says that aircraft have not spotted the number of cattle they thought they?d find and are now anticipating the worst...
...Aviation isn't the only area of Indonesia's transportation sector, vital to the 220 million people spread across its 1,800 islands, to be in difficulty. As Jakarta called in Singapore and the United States for help in the search for the aircraft on Thursday, local officials in East Java continued rescue efforts for the victims of a shipping disaster that left more than 400 missing when a ferry with 628 passengers went down off the coast of Java last Friday. On Wednesday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the creation of a special team to evaluate the nation...
...crashed in Solo in 2004, killing 25 of the 141 people on board, and a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed in Medan, Indonesia's third-largest city, in September 2005, killing all 102 on board and 47 residents on the ground. In 2006 there were at least 15 aircraft accidents in Indonesia, resulting in 14 fatalities. One foreign resident tells of an Adam Air flight last year from Jakarta to Lombok which left with his luggage but not him. "That's how terrorists blow up planes," he notes, asking not to be identified. "But [the airline] didn't even seem...
...Adam Air officials have placed full-page ads in local newspapers apologizing for the disappearance of their plane and pledging to find the 17-year-old aircraft. The government has also pledged to continue searching for the wreckage, which is believed to be in the mountains somewhere in west Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia. "Apart from the weather, the terrain is extremely difficult and complicating search efforts," Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa told the press on Wednesday. "But we will keep looking until it is found...