Word: deployment
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...separate tracks are carefully interwoven: U.S. officials tell TIME that their immediate plan is to scare bin Laden and his aides out of hiding; gather as much intelligence as possible about their whereabouts; deploy commandos in and around Afghanistan to strike quickly if bin Laden can be found; and reassure Muslim leaders constantly that American war aims are limited. And as the President said Saturday, "Full warning has been given, and time is running...
...terrorist incidents." He didn't bother to add what everyone knew: the next incidents could be even more ghastly than those of Sept. 11. A terrorist group prepared to murder more than 6,000 civilians would feel no compunction about killing 60,000--or 600,000--if it could deploy the necessary weapons of mass destruction. And so the fear of such an attack--and the government's hasty efforts to contain the threat--became the nation's No. 1 item of business...
...today, but here's the difference: instead of going for the lowest bid and thus settling for minimally trained minimum-wage workers, the government would set employment and national-security standards for airports; it would conduct background checks and purchase and maintain all security equipment. Bush also wants to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops to monitor airports, possibly for months...
...Japan, incooperation with the emergent Navy Theater-Wide program? Would he be able to use our innovations to upgrade Israel’s Arrow missile defense? No, because Article IX prohibits such assistance: “Each Party undertakes not to transfer to other States, and not to deploy outside its national territory, ABM systems or their components limited by this Treaty.” The U.S. wouldn’t even be allowed to transfer “technical descriptions or blueprints of ABM systems and their components” to our allies. The treaty would thereby paralyze opportunities...
...stop there. The day that America can legitimately protect its citizens from incoming missiles is the day that even the most volatile rogue state will be afraid to launch an attack. Such protection could also immobilize any chemical or biological weapons that terrorists might have hoped to deploy...