A21 Chafing at Missile Deadline A top Pentagon official complained of undue pressure to meet an "artificial" summer deadline for recommending whether to deploy the national missile defense system.
PAGE C1 Warning on Missile Defense The Pentagon is facing undue pressure to meet an "artificial" deadline for recommending whether to deploy a missile defense system, a weapons tester said.
The Pentagon is facing undue pressure to meet an "artificial" deadline for recommending whether to deploy the national missile defense system, the project's senior weapons tester said in a report released today.
While President Clinton has set a deadline of this summer to decide whether to deploy an anti-missile system, administration officials have said that the deadline could slip into the fall if additional time is needed to analyze information from a final test of the system in late June.
Can media be ethical under pressure of deadlines, and when they're unable to deploy their news teams in conflict zones, as has been the case in Syria?
Because airlines and the government were too slow to deploy the machines over the years, airlines are allowed to meet the deadline by engaging in a combination of bag-to-passenger matching, manual searches, dog-sniffing and some X-raying.
They are also easy to deploy.
The Pentagon plans to deploy 12 Ospreys.
Sergeant Bales was declared fit to deploy.
