June 12, 2000

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Conservatives, Liberals Agree: Clinton Strategic Policy a Dud

WASHINGTON Missile defense and arms control advocates share a unanimous verdict on the Moscow summit. The summit’s failure to produce either an updated Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, or more reductions in nuclear weapons, exposed large veins of stale, confused and timid thinking that have disfigured nearly eight years of Clinton strategic policy, Veteran military analysts say.

By PAUL MANN7 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

British Airways, KLM Pursue Merger

PARIS British Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are exploring a merger that could reshape the European airline industry as well as global strategic alliances. BA and KLM officials last week stressed that ongoing discussions still are at a preliminary stage.

By PIERRE SPARACO5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Radar Would Meld AWACS, J-STARS Roles

WASHINGTON It is one of the most baffling of recent developments in U.S. defense technology modernization efforts. While the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been preaching that the military must keep improving ground and air surveillance, the Air Force and Congress have been slashing two high-profile programs that would do just that.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Airline Merger Fever Stirs Pot of Labor, Legal Issues

Labor opposition to airline mergers and government misgivings about the effects on competition have cast fresh doubts on the prospect of rapid industry consolidation. Wall Street greeted high-level talks among U.S. major airlines as a symptom of merger fever, which has swept the industry since US Airways agreed to an acquisition plan by United’s parent, UAL Corp., only weeks ago.

By JAMES OTT,FRANCES FIORINO5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Thel Laser Kills Short-Range Missile

LOS ANGELES WASHINGTON Destruction of a rocket in flight by a high-energy laser system has demonstrated that an operationaltype directed energy weapon can defeat short-range ballistic rocket attack, according to program officials.

By BRUCE A. SMITH,ROBERT WALL4 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Joint Warning Center To Open in Mid-2001

Washington A U.S./Russian agreement to open a joint warning center in Moscow by mid-2001 for the exchange of information on missile and space launches is good as far as it goes, but shared data should be more detailed, American analysts say.

By Paul Mann3 min

UPSET TRAINING

Upset Training Geared To Real World, Not Books

Using airplanes to teach recovery from severe upsets is atypical and moves this crucial training from the classroom to the sky

By EDWARD H. PHILLIPS10 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Aerospace Corp. Study Shows Limits of Faster-Better-Cheaper

LOS ANGELES Failure of NASA’s faster-better-cheaper (FBC) spacecraft may be predictable, according to an Aerospace Corp. examination of the last decade of FBC missions. The study found that missions that crossed into an area of high complexity and low development time inevitably failed.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM7 min

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