Bill Bratton has been the top cop in New York and Los Angeles. He gets to do it again in new york, and again at a department under criticism for its tactics. The Air Force stopped work on a highflying, long-endurance spy drone last year.
Bill Bratton has been the top cop in New York and Los Angeles. He gets to do it again in new york, and again at a department under criticism for its tactics. The Air Force stopped work on a highflying, long-endurance spy drone last year.
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Bill Bratton has been the top cop in New York and Los Angeles. He gets to do it again in new york, and again at a department under criticism for its tactics. The Air Force stopped work on a highflying, long-endurance spy drone last year.
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AA2 Printed with soy inks on partially recycled paper. 7 3 85944 00150 Seth Wenig Associated Press When the Air Force lookedfor ways tosave mon- ey last year to deal with de- clining budgets, officials de- cided to halt work on a high- flying, long-endurance spy drone built in Palmdale by defense giant Northrop GrummanCorp. At a cost of $35,000 per flyinghour, theGlobal Hawk Block30aircraft hadpriced itself out of the niche, in terms of taking pictures in the air, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said at the time. The Air Force planned to stop buying the Global Hawk and mothball 18 of those it already owned to save about $2.5 billion over five years. The high-tech drones, the military said, were not as capable as the battle-testedU-2spyplanes. Northrop responded sharply, saying the U-2 places pilots in danger, has limited flight duration and provides limited sensor ca- pacity. In the end, the Air Force didnt win that skirmish. House Armed Services Committee Chairman How- ard Buck McKeon (R- Santa Clarita), whose con- gressional district includes Palmdale, jumped in to res- cue the project. Congress re- stored the funding, and last month Northrop received a $114-millioncontract tobuild three more drones, saving thousands of jobs. The Pentagon faces bud- get cuts of $487 billion over the next 10 years and the threat of $500 billion more under sequestration. But paring down the budget by killing weapons programs is no easy task on Capitol Hill, where politicians, backedby the defense industry lobby, fight to protect jobs in their home districts. For instance, Congress has spent about $400 million inthe last twoyears tochurn [See Drone, A18] Global Hawk flies into budget battle Air Force plan to stop buying and flying the drone to cut costs is scuttled by lawmakers and the defense lobby. By W.J. Hennigan JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Dressed in black against a twilight-blue background, a somber South African President Ja- cob Zuma appeared on tele- vision to give his country- men the news they had long dreaded. My fellow South Afri- cans, he intoned. Our be- loved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed. With that announce- ment, delivered about 11:35 p.m. Thursday, SouthAfrica learned that it had lost its greatest figure: itsfirst black president, the leader of the movement to end the apart- heid system of racial dis- crimination and a man known to most as simply Madiba. Our nation has lost its greatest son, Zuma said. Our people have lost a fa- ther. Mandela, 95, never recov- ered after being admitted to a hospital in June with the latest of several severe bouts of pneumonia. Although doctors managed to stabi- lize his condition, he re- mained in critical health un- til the end. He was released fromthehospital inSeptem- ber and was treated at his home in the Johannesburg suburbof Houghton. Zuma said he died there peacefully at 8:50 p.m. Thursday. Almost immediately, people began to converge around the house to pay their respects, tobe apart of history or simply because they didnt know what else to do. They were white and black, many still in their pa- jamas, someflyingSouthAf- ricanflags fromtheir cars. Everybodys heart is with the old man, said Prince Maphumulo, 43, who drove more than 60 miles to the home when he heardthe news. Maphumulo, a soldier in the South African army, was wearing a jacket from Mandelas African National Congress. We are actually not sur- prised in South Africa by now because he has been sick for a very, very long time, he said. Weve been expecting this any time. But he added: His legacy is incomparable anywhere in the world. Hes a world icon. [See South Africa, A11] A life dedicated to liberty South Africa mourns the death of Nelson Mandela, 95, its greatest son, first black president and Nobel Peace laureate. By Robyn Dixon JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Nel- sonMandela, whoemergedfrommorethana quarter of a century inprisonto steer a trou- bledAfricannationtoits first multiracial de- mocracy, unitingthecountrybyreachingout to fearful whites and becoming a revered symbol of racial reconciliation around the world, diedThursday. He was 95. Long before his release from prison in 1990, at age 71, Mandela was aninspirationto millions of blacks seeking to end the oppres- sion of more than four decades of apartheid, and his continued incarceration spawned international censure of South Africas white-minority government. Successive white South African leaders had portrayed himas a dangerous terrorist. But when Mandela was freed, after 27 years, he surprised many by saying he bore no ill will towardhis white Afrikaner jailers. Preaching reconciliation, he guided the nation through four years of on-again, off- again constitutional talks, using his moral authority to address the demands of an im- patient black majority while, at the same time, winningover suspicious whites. Mandela and the man who released him, President Frederik W. de Klerk, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in1993. Ayear later, Man- dela, the son of a tribal chief, succeeded De Klerk after a historic, peaceful election, the images of which were seared into the memo- ry of a global audience: millions of blacks castingthe first votes of their lifetimes. Under Mandela the economy grew, a con- stitution guaranteeing equality and press freedom took root, and a Truth and Recon- ciliation Commission unearthed many dark secrets of apartheidandgrantedamnesty to both whites and blacks accused of political violence. During his five-year term in office, Man- delas formal dignity and his skill in building consensus made hima rarity on a continent plagued by corrupt dictators. Although his strongest supportersweredeeplydistrustful of whites, who controlled much of the coun- trys economy, Mandela made a determined and largely successful effort to ease white fears. Ashistermdrewtoaclose, hedecidednot tostandfor reelectionin1999andvoluntarily stepped aside a move almost unheard of among African leaders. His party, the Afri- can National Congress, again won national elections and chose Mandelas vice presi- dent, ThaboMbeki, as his successor. After leaving the government, Mandelas worldwide stature continuedto grow. He be- came active in the fight against AIDS; a son died of the disease in 2005. He also traveled widely in support of human rights and ef- forts to end poverty NELSON MANDELA, 1918 - 2013 Jurgen Schadeberg Getty Images FROM PRISONER TO PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela revisits his prison cell on Robben Island in1994. The anti-apartheid leader, who went on to become South Africas president, surprised many when he was freed by saying he bore no ill will toward his white jailers. Anti-apartheid icon reconciled a nation By Robyn Dixon, Bob Drogin and Scott Kraft [See Mandela, A8] 2013 Cartier E x p l o r e a n d S h o p w w w . c a r t i e r . u s - 1 - 8 0 0 - c a r t i e r Ballon Bleu de Cartier 33 mm Collection