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...make their case, the generals and admirals needed to do some creative salesmanship while avoiding some basic questions, like Will they work? Are they worth it? Do we need them? And so it is that General Joseph Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been presenting lawmakers with charts showing the deployment of warplanes around the world and the threat they represent to American security. What Ralston doesn't point out is that this ominous global collection of nearly 6,000 advanced warplanes includes those of Britain, France, Canada--everyone except the U.S. Nor does he mention...
...only publicly available Pentagon report on future threats to U.S. warplanes, finds that America's most likely foes--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--have only about 100 front-line warplanes among them. That total, the Navy projects, will climb to 120 by 2005. Lawmakers are irritated by Ralston's apparent sleight-of-threat. "There's been a lack of candor in the whole process," complains Representative Curt Weldon, the hawkish Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Committee on National Security's research-and-development panel. "We haven't been given a threat that warrants these programs," he told Time...
...cash from just about anyone during the campaign, Clinton banned the corporate contributions, interest-free loans and in-kind donations that normally underwrite such a celebration. Continental Airlines won't provide free seats to celebrities. General Motors will not provide 300 cars, free of charge, for the parade, and Ralston Purina will not hay and water the hundreds of horses that usually turn the Mall into an urban Ponderosa for a few days. "They are doing the Caesar's wife Inaugural," said insurance lobbyist Michael Lewan, a Democrat...
...Colleen T. Gaard, Matthew W. Granade, Justin D. Lerer, Malka A. Older, Olivia E. Ralston and Chana R. Schoenberger contributed to this report...
Whitacre brought that high intensity to ADM, where he arrived in 1989 after jobs as a researcher at Ralston Purina and a manager at Degussa, a German-owned chemical firm. He organized and ran ADM's fast-growing biochemical-products division. Under Whitacre's supervision the company began making the feed additive lysine in 1991; it now controls half the worldwide market. That made Whitacre a favorite of ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas and a likely successor to company president James Randall, 71. "He was very proud and excited about his work at ADM," says Combs, who kept in touch with...