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Thursday, April 01, 2004

# Posted 11:23 AM by Patrick Belton  

TODAY'S NEWS ROUNDUP: The Pentagon has announced plans to sell Taiwan early-warning radar systems worth $1.8 billion to bolster its defenses in light of a Chinese missile buildup; in return, China has scolded the U.S. for sending "the wrong message" to Taipei. Egyptian President Mubarak has abandoned his attempt to salvage the Arab League summit and host it in Cairo. The Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station closed its doors yesterday after 60 years in Puerto Rico. And Secretary Powell, unusually for a U.S. official, said yesterday that the U.S. and Europe had been pursuing different world visions for the past two years, and said it was time for the two sides' paths to converge.

In other news, UAVs are in in the new defense budget, while Comanches are out. They're, like, so Cold War.
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