Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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But also it probably is not the easiest time to visit China. China, as you know, has broken off military-to-military relations temporarily with the United States and he feels that it may be better to go later.
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we don't believe that there'll be any problem with meeting the time lines.
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I think the primary reason for that (the delay) is that, right now, he (Cohen) feels that his place is here in Washington devoting as much time as possible to running the U.S. participation in the air campaign in Kosovo, preparing for the peacekeeping force.
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I think that if you look at that, you'll see that there's been a dramatic increase in the amount of time and energy that's been put into this project.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
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The forces are clearly more wary of being hit. They've had to disperse more and are having a harder time operating in large, coherent units.
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The Iraqis move forces back and forth on sort of an unpredictable basis from time to time; they do appear to be moving some missiles and other forces into the southern no-fly zone.
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We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.
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It would be an absolute victory for terrorists ... if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,
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These soldiers from the First Infantry Division first went to Macedonia to participate in a United Nations mission called UNPREDP, the U.N. Preventative Deployment, which was protecting Macedonia.
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These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.
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The U.N. is sending a team that's supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they report, then the U.N. will decide what to do next.
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These are the forces that are being used to attack the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo, and we will continue to focus on those targets.
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There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage.