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...White House's confidence can be seen in its willingness to deploy Gates, rather than anonymous Pentagon bookkeepers, as the point man on the issue. Bush, Gates insisted last week, has begun to withdraw troops from Iraq, just as the Democrats have demanded. "The drawdowns have already started," Gates said. "It's really not about principles, it seems to me, anymore - it's about pacing. And that's where I think deference should be paid to the views of those conducting the operations...
...Some see politics playing more of a role in the case than Sarkozy's intervention on the reporters' behalf. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer has pointed out Chadian officials remain angered by a French-inspired plan to deploy European peacekeeping troops to eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees - an attitude he says may motivate what he considers a framing of the Zoe's Ark workers. Déby has denied that allegation, and promised the deployment will be carried out as planned. Despite that, international aid efforts in the region have been undermined by the caper - while...
Some governments cite the "digital divide" between rich and poor to justify these initiatives. Many cities also want to deploy the networks to connect citizens and tourists to local information, to support city workers including police, building inspectors and social workers, and to remotely monitor infrastructure such as parking meters and cctv cameras. But governments usually mention economic competitiveness as their primary justification. "We see this to be an enabler for new opportunities, new businesses, and to attract new companies," says Yeng Kit Chan, head of Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority. "Without this new infrastructure Singapore would not have...
Probes into the deadly 2000 crashes revealed that in a rush to deploy the aircraft, the Marines had dangerously cut corners in their testing program. The number of different flight configurations - varying speed, weight and other factors - flown by test pilots to ensure safe landings was reduced by half to meet deadlines. Then only two-thirds of those curtailed flight tests were conducted. That trend continues: while a 2004 plan called for 131 hours of nighttime flight tests, the Marines managed to run only 33 on the Osprey. Why the shortcuts? Problems with a gearbox kept many...
Helicopter expert Rex Rivolo, who called the decision to deploy the V-22 without proven autorotation capability "unconscionable" in that confidential 2003 Pentagon study, declined to be interviewed. But in his report, Rivolo noted that up to 90% of the helicopters lost in the Vietnam War were in their final approach to landing when they were hit by enemy ground fire. About half of those were able to autorotate safely to the ground, "thereby saving the crews," Rivolo wrote. "Such events in V-22 would all be fatal...