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...Pentagon has invited hundreds of select private-security firms to display their state-of-the-art gear at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The three-day show, called the Force Protection and Equipment Demonstration (FPED), is unique in that the vendors have to put up or shut up: they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised and be able to deliver inventory in 90 days. The military's push to protect the troops has only gained urgency since the 9/11 attacks precipitated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We come to FPED to find rapid...
...Meanwhile, the North's ability to wage nuclear war may be growing, thereby increasing the ransom?food and fuel to prop up Kim's ailing economy?that he's expected to demand as the price of nuclear disarmament. North Korea recently shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, raising concerns that it might be harvesting up to 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods that could be used to build as many as six atomic bombs. Equally troubling, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, testified in Congress last week that the North may now be capable...
Some House Republicans have claimed that they voted for Wednesday’s resolution only because of the political reality of the Democratic presence on the Ethics Committee. Democrats hold five of the 10 seats on the committee and resolved to shut it down until Republicans agreed to reverse January’s rule changes which “effectively neutered the committee,” in the words of one Democrat. In truth, however, the vote symbolizes the end of the GOP’s support for its wayward son, DeLay. The reversal of rules that limited the committee?...
...meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that it had been designed to give Republicans a veto against any probe of DeLay. The about-face by Republicans on the rules was so sudden...
...Taiwan Strait, in China. In classes, Fan, 23, is learning how to conduct business on the mainland. After-hours, more experienced friends tell him how to conduct himself once he gets there. (Don't talk politics; if someone asks about Taiwan's disputed status as a renegade Chinese province, shut up.) Regardless of the tricky politics, Fan's eyes are set firmly on China. "It's where the opportunities...