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additional E roommate needed for spring, $315/mo.
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Friday, December 1, 2000
NATION
THE BATTALION
Marines anticipate
Osprey’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ma
rine Corps’ top officer said Thursday
he expects the Defense Department to
give the go-ahead soon for starting
full-scale production of the MV-22
Osprey, a hybrid helicopter-airplane.
The Marines are counting on the
new aircraft to replace their Vietnam-
era fleet of transport helicopters.
“I’m confident it should be ap
proved, and I’ve seen nothing to lead
me to believe that it won’t,” Gen.
James Jones, commandant of the Ma-
6< 7 don't agree
that the [Osprey]
is a troubled
program."
— Brig. Gen. James F. Amos f
assistant deputy commandant t
for Marine Corps aviation
rine Corps, said in a brief interview
with The Associated Press.
The Pentagon is expected to an
nounce next week whether to approve
full-scale production of the MV-22,
which takes off and lands like a heli
copter and flies like an airplane. The
Osprey is being produced by Boeing
Co. and Bell Helicopter Textron, and
the Marines plan to buy 360 of them
for $36 billion.
Jones said he would favor in
creasing the total number purchased,
although he mentioned no specific
figure.
On Nov. 17, the Pentagon's top
civilian overseer of weapons testing
reported that although the Osprey is
“operationally effective,” it has not
shown itself to be “operationally suit
able,” meaning it is capable of per
forming its assigned missions but at a
potentially unacceptably high cost in
terms of maintenance and repairs.
approval
The Nov. 17 report by Philip Coyle,
the Pentagon’s director of operational
test and evaluation, said the Osprey’s
maintenance costs might even be high
er than that of the CH-46 helicopter it
is going to replace.
“It’s not a valid comparison,” Jones
said when asked about Coyle’s state
ment in a report to Congress. Jones
said that because the Osprey uses such
advanced technologies, Coyle’s com
parison is akin to comparing a Viet-
nam-era F-4 fighter jet with the new-
generation fighter known as the Joint
Strike Fighter.
Some members of Congress have
criticized the Osprey program as too
expensive and technically flawed.
At a Pentagon briefing. Brig. Gen.
James F. Amos, the assistant deputy
commandant for Marine Corps avia
tion, told reporters that although the
Osprey is a “high maintenance” air
craft, it is on track for continuing im
provement.
“I don’t agree that the V-22 is a
troubled program,” he said, using the
Osprey’s code name.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Ba
con said Defense Secretary William
Cohen has not been briefed on Coyle’s
report. But he “shares the comman
dant’s view that this is an exciting and
important new development in Marine
aviation,” Bacon said.
Jones said it is natural that a whol
ly new aircraft would, at this early
stage of production, have higher main
tenance costs. Other Marine Corps of
ficials have said they expect these
costs to fall as they gain more experi
ence with the Osprey.
The decision on whether to start
full-scale production — due next week
— was to have been made earlier this
fall. The decision was delayed as a re
sult of an interruption in Osprey test
and evaluation flights following the
crash of an Osprey in Arizona last
April, an accident in which all 19
Marines aboard were killed.
Tipper
Gore tops
Nat’l tree
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rid
ing a cherry picker through gusty
winds on Thursday, Tipper Core
topped the National Christmas
Tree near the White House with an
illuminated, three-dimensional star
for perhaps her final time.
Vice President A1 Gore’s wife
rode the hydraulic lift up to the top
of the 40-foot Colorado blue
spruce that serves as the permanent
Christmas tree. Along with 10-
year-old Marlon Young and 8r
year-old Brenda Rodriguez of
Raymond Elementary School in
Washington and Peter Nostrand,
president of the Pageant of Peace,
Gore placed the snowflake-like
star on top of the tree that sits in the
Ellipse.
“It was good, yes?” Gore shout
ed down at some other school-
children gathered to watch. She lat
er pulled out her camera and
snapped pictures of the tree and the
National Park Service volunteers
who had gathered to help.
Marlon grinned excitedly as the
lift went up and could not stop
smiling even after he got back
down to the ground. “It was good,”
Marlon echoed behind Gore.
Surrounding the tree are 56
trees, representing all 50 states,
five territories and the District of
Columbia. Each of the trees will be
decorated with ornaments created
or supplied by civic groups or artis
tic organizations in the states they
represent.
After placing the topmost orna
ment on the tree, Gore and her
three companions planted the Ten
nessee tree.
It was Gore’s sixth time topping
the National Christmas tree.
Clinton calls for tougher gun control
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton marked the
seventh anniversary of the signing of the Brady gun control
law on Thursday with a call to give law enforcement offi
cers even more information about gun buyers who fail back
ground checks.
“This country is still too dangerous for our children. The
crime rate is still too high,” Clinton said.
Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and Treasury Sec
retary Lawrence Summers were joined at the event in the
Eisenhower Executive Office Building by former White
House press secretary James Brady, who was seriously
wounded when he was shot in 1981 in a failed assassination
attempt against Reagan. He and his wife, Sarah, pushed for
the passage of the Brady bill, which required background
checks for gun buyers.
To improve enforcement, Clinton said he called on Reno
and Summers to start developing a new system to notify
state and local law enforcement officials of people who have
tried to buy guns illegally. Currently, these officials are no
tified when felons, fugitives and domestic abusers try to buy
guns illegally. The new system would provide law en
forcement agencies with information on more categories of
individuals who fail background checks.
The National Rifle Association reserved judgment on
Clinton’s proposal but worried that it may create an unnec
essary layer of bureaucracy, without addressing the real
problem of lax federal prosecution of those who try to ob
tain guns illegally.
“Since this is in the early stages, we just have to wait and
see what happens,” said NRA spokeswoman Kelly Whit
ley. “But once again, it doesn’t do anyone any good to pro
vide a new system, or more money for law enforcement, if
the federal government is not willing to prosecute these
criminals.”
“The Brady bill has now stopped more than 611,000
felons, fugitives and domestic abusers from buying guns,”
Clinton said. “Now the opponents of the Brady bill — who
are still alive and well — said at the time that it would be an
enormous burden on hunters and sports shooters and law-
abiding citizens and that it wouldn’t make much difference.
“But after all these years, we now know that nobody’s
missed a day in the deer woods, nobody’s missed a sports
shooting contest and it sure made a difference. It made
611,000 differences. That means more children alive, more
police officers alive, more citizens alive — fewer people
wounded like Jim.”
He said more than a dozen new cities will join 38 cities
to participate in the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative
to crack down on illegal gun trafficking by tracing all crime
guns to their source.
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