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...smaller but costly programs, notably Grumman's F-14D jet fighter (saving: $2.4 billion) and the V-22 Osprey ($7.8 billion), an innovative tiltrotor aircraft made by Boeing and Bell Textron. The Defense Secretary worked the Capitol Hill corridors last week to make his case, while President Bush courted key Senators and Representatives over a series of White House breakfasts...
...will a revamping of party practices be enough to lure back voters? Of key concern are the farmers who deserted the party in droves, complaining that the L.D.P. had capitulated to foreign trade pressures by opening Japan to food imports. Charged Masatoshi Wada, a leader of the 10,000-strong Shuso Agricultural Cooperative: "The L.D.P. promised to fight against liberalization at any cost, and then gave up the fight. We can no longer trust them at their face value...
...drives up the cost of loans to other nations, which threatens to wipe out the benefits that Nick Brady has made possible." Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit is provoking protectionism, which would make it harder for developing countries to work off their debts by exporting their products to a key market. If the U.S. is really going to help, debt reduction must begin at home. Otherwise, the promise of the Brady plan -- along with much of the rest of America's influence abroad -- will be squandered. That, truly, would be unforgivable...
India was the first to deploy troops on the Siachen Glacier. In April 1984 the Indian army launched Operation Meghdoot (Cloud Messenger), placing forces at two key passes of the Saltoro Range, which runs along the Siachen Glacier's western edge toward the Chinese border. India says it was pre-empting a planned Pakistani move -- a contention Islamabad denies. The Indian advance captured nearly 1,000 sq. mi. of territory claimed by Pakistan; ever since then New Delhi has wanted to establish a formal boundary along that natural divide. The conflict escalated slowly as each side deployed more men, established...
Pakistan wants India to pull back from the glacier, after which the two sides could discuss a new boundary line. The key requirement: it must begin at NJ 9842 and end at the Karakoram Pass. But Pakistan would be willing to draw a demarcation between those points that would fall somewhere between its earlier claims and India's current position on the Saltoro Range...