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Missile defense test successful
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Pentagon’s successful mis
sile defense test bolsters Presi-
. dent Bush’s hopes for building at
least a rudimentary defense
against ballistic missile attack on
- the United States and its allies
; by 2004.
The destruction of a mock
warhead in space by a missile
’ interceptor launched from
t Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall
Islands was an important step
for the Pentagon’s missile de
fense effort, but must be fol
lowed by more successes in
more frequent and more real
istic tests, officials said.
The success late Saturday
night followed two dramatic test
failures during the Clinton ad
ministration.
“This test is just one on a
journey, one stop on a journey,”
said Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald
Kadish, head of the Pentagon’s
missile defense programs. He
held a news conference at the
Pentagon less than an hour after
the collision of the interceptor
and its target created a huge
white flash in space.
“We will press on to the next
test,” he said.
That test, scheduled for Oc
tober, may include some addi
tional complexities, such as ex
tra decoys aboard the target
missile. In Saturday’s test, just
one decoy was used.
A White House spokes
woman said the president was
pleased with the result.
Russia, however, renewed its
warning that Bush’s missile de
fense plans will hurt global se
curity rather than boosting it by
threatening the structure of nu
clear disarmament treaties.
Bush and Russian President
Vladimir Putin are expected to
discuss missile defense and ex
isting arms control pacts when
they meet this coming weekend
in Italy at a gathering of leaders
of the world’s industrial powers.
The successful intercept pro
vides a political boost for a proj
ect that some congressional De
mocrats believe risks upsetting
relations with Russia and China,
and has the potential to create a
new arms race.
“They hit a bullet with a bul
let, and it does work. We can de
velop that capability,” said Sen.
Trent Lott, R-Miss., on “Fox
News Sunday.”
One skeptic, Sen. Joseph
Biden, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
congratulated the military while
cautioning that “it’s not a real
world test yet. And we have a
long way to go, and we should
continue to pursue it.”
Bush has asked Congress for
$8.3 billion to finance missile
defense research and testing in
2002, a $3 billion increase over
this year. Saturday’s test cost
about $100 million, Kadish
said.
“We should put this right at
the top of the agenda,” Lott said.
Biden, D-Del., was more
cautious. “We don’t know what
his program is yet,” he said on
Fox. Asked if the spending re
quest was worthwhile, Biden
responded: “It depends on
what he’s going to use it for.
The answer is maybe.”
The intercept was the Bush
administration’s first test of the
“hit-to-kill” technology it
hopes will become a key ele
ment of a missile defense net
work. Ot three previous tests in
1999 and 2000, two tailed and
one succeeded.
The administration also is
exploring the feasibility of oth
er missile defense weaponry
including an airborne laser,
ship-based missile interceptors
and space-based weapons* The
system tested Saturday, using a
land-based interceptor to hit
the target during the mid
course of its flight, is the most
technically advanced.
Missile defense test hits target
The Pentagon successfully conducted a missile defense test late
Saturday in what is an important milestone in the Bush administration’s
quest to build a system to defend the nation and its allies against
ballistic missile attacks. More frequent and realistic tests will follow,
officials said.
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Scientists discuss global warming
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) —
Ever since global warming became an issue,
scientists have been grappling with a bliz
zard of new data, feeding them into com
puter models, trying to frame the planet’s
present course and to project its future.
New facts — and new questions — will
be at hand for politicians and policy-makers
gathering Monday in Bonn, Germany, for a
new round of negotiations on controlling
the greenhouse gases blamed for the grad
ual warming of the Earth.
Among the research:
Measurements collected since Cold War
submarines prowled under the Arctic ice
show the ice cap is getting thinner year by
year. Is it global warming or a natural cycle
— or both?
In the Himalayas, the Andes and other
middle latitude mountains, glaciers are re
ceding, while others in high latitudes like
Scandinavia are expanding.
In the coming decades, parts of the Earth
will get less rain, while some will get more.
What does this mean for food production,
fresh water supplies, population shifts?
As temperatures climb, the earth’s cloud
cover will grow and reflect more sunlight,
cooling in some places but perhaps warm
ing others. No one is sure what effect this
will have on the ground.
Last week, at a conference of 1,500 sci
entists in Amsterdam, only a few basic as
sumptions were universally accepted: The
Earth is indeed getting warmer because of
human activity; the warming already has
begun to change our lives and the trend
will increase; we ought to do something
about it.
“The problem of global change is real,
and it is more serious than is currently per
ceived politically,” said Berrien Moore III, a
key member of the U.N. Intergovernmen
tal Panel on Climate Change.
The Amsterdam conference coincided
with the publication of the panel’s full
tt
The problem of global
change is real, and it is
more serious than is cur
rently perceived politically. ”
— Berrien Moore III
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
3,000-page report documenting evidence
that the Earth is warming faster now than
at any time in the previous 1,000 years and
that the concentration of carbon dioxide in
the air is higher than it has been in the last
400,000 years.
The primary manmade factor in global
warming, scientists say, is greenhouse gases
— especially carbon dioxide from cars, fac
tories and power stations. That thick&hing
blanket of heat-trapping gases has already
raised ground temperatures by 1.1 degree
over the last 100 years, they say, and in the
next 100, the global thermometer could rise
6 more degrees.
Four years ago at a U.N. conference in
Japan, governments agreed on a document
called the Kyoto Protocol outlining targets
and timetables for industrialized countries
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions'. It re
quired an average 5.2 percent reduction
from 1990 levels, to be achieved over a
five-year period ending in 2012.
Further negotiations on how to reach
those targets have become embroiled in
contention, pitting the United States
against its European allies, and poor na
tions against the rich.
Falks in The Hague, Netherlands, in
November broke down over how to cred
it countries for managing forests and farms
that absorb carbon dioxide from the air, in
so-called “sinks.” The U^S. delegation
wanted broad leeway, while the Europeans
saw sinks as ploy to avoid forcing Ameri
can industry to clean up its act.
Since then, the change of administra
tions in Washington has made prospects
for an agreement in Bonn even dimmer. In
March, President Bush renounced the
U.S. commitment to Kyoto Protocol, call
ing it a flawed plan that would harm the
U.S. economy.
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ly suggested firing her,” Boies
said. “But in my opinion — and
in the opinion of many others —
there was no other conclusion
that they could come to other
than to see that she had com
mitted plagiarism.”
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task force, which hopes to have
recommendations for the two
presidents by September, when
Fox visits Bush in Washington.
Ashcroft is meeting with Mex
ican officials in California and
Arizona later this month to dis
cuss border issues. I le and Pow
ell also will meet with their Mex
ican counterparts in early August.
The preliminary 7 report will
be presented to Bush as Fox
completes a five-day visit to the
United States this week. On
Monday, Fox planned to meet
in Detroit with auto executives
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minutes after the deluge, hut all
she could do was stand by,
knowing the animals were
drowning in water that rushed
into the basement with enough
force to tear metal doors from
their hinges.
“I thought 1 could just stop
what I was doing,” she recalls.
“If we have no monkeys and no
lab to test them, we are out of
business. 1 was just crying. I was’
in shock.”
She may have given up her
life’s work bad it not been for the
three medical students and four
technicians on her research
team. She knew they depended
on her for their degrees and
their jobs, so instead she focused
on finding more monkeys.
This fall, she should get a
few infants, and she now faces
years rebuilding her $1.2 mil
lion program. But the losses —
particularly of 17-year-old
Bambi, a female monkey she
raised form infancy — strike
deeper than dollars.
“She was so special,”
Bachevalicr says of Bambi. “She
had all of her little tricks. But
they all were special. They were
all individuals, and you get used
to monkey faces like child faces.”
Some losses were so personal
that the victims remain convinced
most people will not understand.
Robert Pastorek, who has
played a double bass for the
Houston Symphony for 37
years, lost his instrument when
the flood destroyed symphony
offices in Jones Hall in the
downtown theater district.
In dollars, the bass was worth
$30,000. But a musician’s instru
ment fits like the perfect pair of
shoes, Pastorek says. Finding
the perfect instrument takes
time, intuition, and patience.
“Each instrument has its own
particular qualities that you can
not duplicate. No two are the
same,” he says. “When you find
something that happens to fit
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found to be unstable so far.
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there was with the Special Ser
vices building, but next week
we will look into the possibili
ty of putting measuring gages
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