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...rotor aircraft program. He got a tragic boost in that quest last night when one of the hybrid planes crashed in the North Carolina woods, killing all four Marines on board. The Pentagon is still trying to perfect - and buy - the Osprey a decade after Cheney vainly tried to scrap it during his tenure as defense secretary. The corps, backed by powerful allies on Capitol Hill, wants to spend $40 billion on 458 of the revolutionary hybrid planes, which take off and land like a helicopter but cruise like an airplane when their rotors tilt forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crash May Presage Osprey's Demise | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...Islamic Jihad an other radical elements who have no interest in negotiating a peace agreement. So with an intifada in full swing, the right-wing Likud party poised to return to power and most of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations still underway happening in secret, President Clinton may have to scrap Middle East peace from his legacy talking points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mideast Turmoil Poses a U.S. Dilemma | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

KIDS LOVE: The exhibit "We Are! Arizona's First People," which focuses on the 21 federally recognized Indian communities in Arizona. Activities in-clude making a fabric- scrap doll and creating a section of a cape necklace as well as fashioning a paper canoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: The Young At Art | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Number of proposals this year in Congress to scrap the electoral system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 27, 2000 | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...pursuing a "strategic partnership" with Beijing and for being too friendly with a corrupt and ruthless Russian government. Gore says he would negotiate with Moscow on changes to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty to allow the U.S. to build a limited missile-defense system; Bush says he is willing to scrap the ABM treaty, rapidly develop a missile shield and make unilateral arms reductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warnings | 10/21/2000 | See Source »

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