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...Tehran airport. The ceremony was a feel-good affair, with a marching band and schoolgirls in white chadors with pink butterfly wings. Speakers ranging from Khomeini's grandson to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani celebrated the endurance of the world's only Islamic system of clerical and democratic rule. And each person who rose to the flower-strewn podium also used the occasion to take a swipe at the U.S., proclaim support for the Palestinian cause, or both...
...high price--and that of accompanying jammer planes and rescue helicopters--is driven by the need to get the pilot into harm's way and then safely out. Even worse, while the Air Force wants more fighters from a bygone era, it has been underbuying the drones that will rule the skies in the future. Though the number of unmanned aircraft is soaring, it hasn't kept pace with the demand in Afghanistan and Iraq, where requirements for full-motion video are growing 300% annually. For every F-22 that isn't bought, the Air Force could add about...
...Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), likened joining Mugabe's administration to committing "political suicide." Though Tsvangirai captured 5% more votes than Mugabe in the Mar. 29 presidential election, a campaign of violence against MDC supporters and Mugabe's stark refusal to relinquish power after nearly 30 years of uninterrupted rule has brought the Zimbabwean government to a standstill at the worst possible time...
...Resigned from the National Constitutional Assembly in 1999 to found the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), with support from students, intellectuals, trade unionists and white commercial farmers. The following year, the MDC helped defeat a constitutional reform bill that would have extended Mugabe's rule and appropriated farms from white landowners - Mugabe's first electoral defeat. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the MDC won almost as many seats as Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, despite a series of attacks that left nearly 30 supporters dead...
Though the early retirement plan has yet to be finalized, the budgetary planning process is proceeding in these meetings with the expectation that an incentive package will be implemented, according to Oseasohn.Even if the early retirement proposal were realized, Oseasohn said she would not rule out the possibility of layoffs, deferring a complete determination until April, when budgetary planning will be finalized and units will know if they need more cuts...