Aviation officials said the plane had been traveling an approved and heavily trafficked route over eastern Ukraine, about 20 miles from the Russia border, when it vanished from radar screens with no distress signal.
But in a sign that Western officials are worried about whether the Africans will be up to the task, some diplomats are suggesting that the United Nations approve a heavily armed rapid-response force of up to 10,000 troops to ward off any resurgent Islamist threat in Mali.
And he approved orders for heavily armed forces to use deadly force against peaceful protesters with a very legitimate political grievance — the ouster and secret detention of Egypt's first democratically elected president.
Voters in Missouri, whose largest city St. Louis is heavily Catholic, approved stem cell research over the opposition of the Church.
A transit panel approved a complex and heavily criticized plan yesterday to create a new train line between Queens and Manhattan, called the V train, and to truncate the G line between Brooklyn and Queens on weekdays so that the new line can be shoehorned onto the crowded tracks.
Perhaps as a result of this, and/or a deeper understanding that privacy is in fact important to the financial industry, New York State's Department of Financial Services recently named Zcash as one of the six approved cryptocurrencies on the heavily regulated Gemini exchange.
The council only approved partial results of the heavily pro-reform vote in the capital, Tehran, last week, and then only at the command of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
These designs weren't reviewed until March 1948, probably because of the need to coordinate reaction to the American Marshall Plan, and Stalin approved the Navy's more heavily protected design.
It hardly gives viewers the full measure of both masters' boldness when they shed the burden of convention that so heavily weighed on officially approved subjects.
California voters on Tuesday approved two budget-related ballot measures heavily promoted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, demonstrating the power of his celebrity and salesmanship.
On Sept. 9, General Miller completed a review of operations in Iraq and recommended a detainee interrogation policy that borrowed heavily from the procedures approved for Guantánamo.
