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However, we are very concerned that China’s interest in the plane has led it to postpone the crew’s return to U.S. soil. China has advanced no satisfying explanation for effectively holding American servicemen and women prisoner. U.S. officials should be given unlimited access to the crew, and efforts to return them (and the plane as well) must begin immediately. The Bush administration has set no deadline for the crew’s return, but they could have been returned to their base in Japan within 24 hours had the Chinese government wished...
...wartime, extreme measures - crashing the plane or ditching into the sea - might have been expected. The plane carried life rafts and its crews are trained to survive such landings. But even though some military officers are grumbling that the spy plane never should have landed on Chinese soil, most military officers interviewed in recent days think the EP-3 crew made the right choice. "That plane can fly back to Japan on three [of its four] engines," a senior Navy officer said. "So it had to be pretty damaged to limp to Hainan. You have to give the crew credit...
...course, Cummings has had rich soil to cultivate. Britons remain skeptical about the E.U.'s progressive pooling of national sovereignty, as one might expect from an island nation whose defining moments, from Waterloo to the Battle of Britain, have come from fighting Continental hegemons. Unlike the British tabloids, Cummings never descends to blasting nonexistent Brussels directives that supposedly compel straight bananas and cucumbers. But he does use all the techniques of modern politics - systematic fertilization of grassroots support, instant response to news, slick website, skillful ads - to convince both the intelligentsia and voters that relinquishing a national currency, especially control...
...script for a moment: Imagine a Chinese plane flying a surveillance mission off the Florida coast colliding with an Air Force F-16 sent on an aggressive monitoring mission. The U.S. fighter goes down and the pilot is lost; the Chinese plane is forced to land on U.S. soil. The incident occurs at a moment when China is about to supply a package of sophisticated weapons to Cuba (possibly including the very same model spy plane now in U.S. hands); is planning to deploy a missile shield that would neutralize the U.S. nuclear arsenal; and has signaled that curbing...
...humans--though they can be carriers--animals develop painful lesions of the hooves and mouth, leading to weight loss, falling milk production and spontaneous abortion. As many as 90% survive, but their robustness never returns, and they become useless commercially. So easily does the disease spread--through air and soil and even on the shoes of farmers and the tires of their trucks--that just 10 viral particles could, experts say, render all U.S. cattle unsuitable for export...