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Warner Robins area car dealers recently presented a check for $40,000 to the 21st Century Partnership. Pictured
from left, Don Brooms (Prescott Suzuki), Ashley Hughes (Hughes Honda), Wayne Lowe (Lowe Toyota), Charlie Cantrell
(Five Star Chevrolet), Mary Therese Tebbe (21st Century Partnership), Terry Holmes (W.R. Ford), Eddie Wiggins (Eddie
Wiggins Buick) Anna Hagler (Jeff Smith Nissan), Bart Miller (Prescott Suzuki).
Area car dealers come together for cause
Special to the Journal
It’s a “super” deal when
Warner Robins area car
dealers come together for a
worthy cause.
Such was the case when
dealers Prescott Suzuki,
Lowe Toyota, Bill Butler
Chrysler, Jeff Smith Nissan,
Eddie Wiggins Buick,
Ballistic missile defense in an era of terrorism
North Korea’s July
missile volley raised
legitimate concern
about American vulner
ability to ballistic missile
and cruise missile attack.
Hezbollah’s rocket barrage
of Israel demonstrated that
terrorist organizations (non
state actors) can acquire and
use missile systems.
The next step, for both
North Korea and Hezbollah,
is adding a weapon of mass
destruction - most likely
a warhead carrying either
nukes or nerve gas.
The longer-range rockets
Hezbollah used (for exam
ple, Russian FROG-7 vari
ants) can be classified as
short-range or “battlefield”
ballistic missiles. With range
exceeding 100 hundred kilo
meters, these missiles can
strike well beyond the front
line.
There is good news. The
United States isn’t complete
ly vulnerable. It possesses a
nascent, “thin shield” bal
listic missile defense.
The defense consists of bits
and pieces
of tactical
and the
ater-level
anti-mis
sile pro
grams
supported
by a dozen
or so long
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missiles
positioned
in Alaska
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Military Affairs
Creators Syndicate
This defense has lay
ers. The Patriot PAC-3 is
designed for short-range,
“point-target defense. The
Patriot PAC-3 is a com
pletely different missile
from the Gulf War’s Patriot
PAC-2. The PAC-2 was an
“enhanced” and “upgraded”
anti-aircraft missile. The
PAC-3 is a genuine anti-bal
listic missile.
The Army’s Terminal High
Altitude Air Defense missile
and the Navy’s Standard
-2 and Standard-3 missiles
extend the “anti-missile
umbrella.” The Navy sys
tems are particularly useful.
They can be deployed on
Aegis cruisers and destroy
ers. The Navy systems can
quickly place anti-missile
firepower in the Persian
Gulf (to thwart a shot from
Iran) or the Sea of Japan (to
intercept a North Korean
Warner Robins Ford, Five
Star Chevrolet and Hughes
Honda committed recently to
donate some $40,000 to the
21st Century Partnership.
The dealership owners,
according to a release, vowed
to continue support of the
group “dedicated to support
ing Robins Air Force Base
launch).
The Standard-3 missile
had a highly successful mis
sile test in June. In a July
test at the Army’s White
Sands range, a THAAD
intercepted a SCUD-type
ballistic missile.
The nascent defense,
however, is an inadequate
defense -1 don’t think that’s
a debatable point.
Yet it is a defense in being
and a defensive system in
the process of expansion.
Though limited and frail, it
demonstrated political utili
ty in July when North Korea
launched its missile volley.
What do I mean by that?
Japan - a threatened ally
- asked for Patriot PAC-3s
to bolster its defense. The
United States agreed to pro
vide them.
We also have a new U.S.-
Japanese missile monitoring
station in Japan, activated
earlier this year.
Our limited anti-missile
system isn’t what it should
be or could be, and yes, myo
pic, wrong-headed politics
played a key role in delay
ing program funding, testing
and deployment.
The anti-ABM cant of cer
tain influential major media
- in the case of The New York
Times, a fossil of its 1980 s
opposition to the Reagan
administration - certainly
hindered development.
Resistance from
McGovernite Democrats was
a potent and problematic fac
tor in Washington. The Cold
War’s “balance of terror”
strategy created a “strate
gic culture” wedded to the
notion of “Mutual Assured
Destruction ” (appropriately
named MAD). If the Soviets
launched a missile strike
against the United States,
U.S. retaliatory capabilities
ensured that Moscow would
be turned to radioactive
glass. An ABM, in the MAD
minds, altered the certain
ty of mutual Armageddon.
An ABM “destabilized” the
ability to assure Moscow
and Washington they would
both perish in a nuclear
exchange.
The rise of rogue states
and fanatic, “suicide” terror
ist organizations, combined
with the proliferation of bal
listic missiles and WMDs,
turned MAD into utter mad
ness.
A suicide bomber cannot
be deterred by the threat of
and its future growth.”
“I’m thrilled,” said
retired Maj. Gen. Ron Smith
with the 21st Century
Partnership. “Having
the local businesses come
together like this shows that
everyone in Middle Georgia
benefits from the base and
we must continue to protect
“mutual destruction.”
Hezbollah’s rocket rain
offers a chilling example.
Hezbollah demonstrated it
is quite willing to sacrifice
its own people and neighbor
hoods. Remember, Hezbollah
is Iran’s puppet, and Iran is
led by a clique that believes
the destruction of Israel will
accelerate their version of
apocalyptic end times. North
Korea has already sacrificed
its own people (via starva
tion) to finance its missile
and nuclear programs.
In February 2003, I
wrote a column titled, “The
Hell Formula for the 21st
Century.”
The formula: terrorists
plus rogue states plus WMD.
Breaking the Hell formula
requires offensive action
against terrorists and rogue
states - and we’ve taken that,
in Iraq and Afghanistan. But
I also wrote that “breaking
down the Hell Formula will
take time.”
A more robust missile
defense system buys time
and blunts the political
effects of “fear us” cam
paigns waged by North
Korean and Iranian despots.
To find out more about
Austin Bay, and read features
by other Creators Syndicate
writers and cartoonists, visit
the Creators Syndicate Web
page at www.creators.com.
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the middle of a capital cam
paign with an annual goal
of $300,000 per year for the
next five years.
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By Phillip Tates
Morris News Service
It’s tough to ignore the
hacking cough at the desk
next to you or the thun
dering sneezes across the
room.
Germs spread through
offices like they grow in
petri dishes. The next
thing you know, it could be
you: Every year, millions of
employees - and employers
- battle the office bug.
A new range of products
may help to stem the tide
of sickness enveloping the
office: antimicrobial office
products that can kill mold
and the germs that make
people sick.
Yes, really.
Smead Manufacturing,
based in Hastings, Minn.,
has started selling antimi
crobial folders, pocket port
folios, file jackets and other
office products, which have
been available for about a
year, said Michelle Hanson,
marketing communications
manager for Smead. The
office-supply company has
$550 million in worldwide
revenue and employs 2,600
people.
“The results are very
promising,” Hanson said.
“It is one of our hottest new
items we have launched
recently.”
The market for products
that could lessen sickness
around the office is grow
ing into big business.
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Several other companies
sell office products like
pens and keyboards with
antimicrobial features,
Hanson said.
University of Michigan
Health System research
ers estimated the common
cold costs the U.S. economy
S4O billion a year - roughly
$133 for every person in
the country, according to
2003 data.
Hanson said Smead man
ufactures its folders and
other products with a pat
ented treatment of silver
zeolite, an antimicrobial
material.
The process is test
ed and approved by the
Environmental Protection
Agency and the Federal
Drug Administration.
“There are very stringent
guidelines that have to be
followed,” Hanson said.
The company says its
products help guard against
the growth of bacteria,
odors, algae, mold, fun
gus and mildew - though
it adds that other preven
tative steps also must be
taken to reduce the risk
of contamination. Still, it
says the products are ideal
for hospitals, dentist offices
and schools.
But Dr. J. Rush Pierce
Jr., public health author
ity for the city of Amarillo,
wonders if the product is
really worth the cost, espe
cially from what he has
seen in the area.
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