Background: Secretary Gates supports closing Gitmo and scaling down ambitions in Afghanistan, and plans to replace old nuclear weapons with new ones.
"We know around the country of supported housing placements closing down as a result of this.
In January, 2009, there was bipartisan support for closing down Guantánamo, including from John McCain and from President Bush himself, who had said, "I'd like it to be over with".
He said the government had done "a strong job," adding that in a severe outbreak, "they'd have a lot of public support for closing down a school or an airport".
Well, the system is struggling financially and facing cutbacks in service, and there's no small amount of general public support for closing down branches -- until the public finds out it's their post office branch that's under the gun.
The trigger advocates say they have collected signatures from a majority of families in support of closing down the school this summer and reopening it as a charter school in the fall, to be run by a partnership of parents, teachers and the school district.
Winter Schools in Northern Pakistan JABORI, Pakistan: Across northeast Pakistan's valley floors, razed by the devastating October 8 earthquake, thousands of temporary tent schools supported by UNICEF are closing down for the long hot summer.
President Reagan, citing little congressional support, will not recommend closing down the Education Department, a major goal when he took office in 1981, it was revealed today.
These need to include a demonstration by Pakistan that it is serious about stopping terrorists crossing into Kashmir and about closing down their support facilities on its side of the border.
Primary schools are closing down and children are leaving schools to help support individual family incomes.
