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...turned down the most controversial request, for ships equipped with the advanced Aegis battle management radar. Although it was the biggest sale in years, Beijing's outrage displayed somewhat less bellicosity than it is capable of mustering. Bush, however, indicated that he might okay a future Aegis sale unless Beijing reduced its batteries of short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan. Although a few right-wing critics, already angry about Bush's "very sorry" letter for the spy-plane incident, complained that the President caved over the radar, most legislators were satisfied with the decision?a balanced one that...
...policy of blasting apart the skyborne narcodistribution system that sends pilots in small planes into Andean skies day after day. The argument against the policy, first raised in the early 1990s, was simple: it violated a fundamental precept of U.S. law enforcement, that cops never shoot to kill unless lives are in danger. Since both the U.S. military and the State Department felt bound by Supreme Court rulings that it is unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes couldn't directly support shoot-downs. To many countries, the whole idea of shooting unarmed planes...
Remember how Robert Downey Jr. described his relationship with drugs at one of his hearings? He said it's like he has a gun in his mouth, and he loves the taste of the gunmetal. You will never understand drug addiction unless you understand that it's a love story...
...turned down the most controversial request, for ships equipped with the advanced Aegis battle-management radar. Although it was the biggest sale in years, Beijing's predictable outrage displayed less bellicosity than it is capable of mustering. Bush, however, indicated that he might okay a future Aegis sale unless Beijing reduces its batteries of short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan. Although a few right-wing critics, already angry about Bush's "very sorry" letter for the spy plane, complained that the President caved over the radar, most Republicans and Democrats were satisfied with the decision--a balanced one that...
...into this wind will be obligated to follow through and buy all the other stuff. But there are a lot of other people who are worried about their jobs, or dissatisfied with them, and, really, who couldn't stand to sock a little money away in these turbulent times? Unless inflation hits hard, Greenspan, again, has little excuse not to take another stab at getting this economy back to a nice canter by the end of the year...