-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ARTICLE 1 U.S. Expresses Support for Macedonia Ed.: US support for Macedonia…first with non-military means. What’s non-military? Contractor support/training? What’s next? Let’s keep a close watch on this one. By GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON (AP) - Dismissing ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia as a small minority, the State Department expressed ``unequivocal support'' Monday for the country's territorial integrity and said the United States is looking for additional ways to assist Macedonian authorities. The statement by spokesman Richard Boucher came after NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson said more NATO troops were being sent to beef up the border between Kosovo and Albania. Boucher said no consideration is being given to sending NATO troops across the border to assist in the struggle against the insurgents. At the White House, spokeswoman Mary Ellen Countryman, said the United States is considering additional nonmilitary help for the Macedonians. Boucher said the United States is ``very concerned with the situation. We're looking at it in conjunction with our NATO allies.'' He said NATO forces in Kosovo are taking ``resolute steps'' within the mandate under a Security Council resolution to control the Kosovo side of the Macedonia border. ``NATO has stepped up its patrols, tightened its patrols along the border,'' Boucher said. ``They have detained insurgents that are trying to move across the Kosovo-Serbia boundary. They've interdicted armed shipments. They have seized weapons caches. We'll continue to move within NATO and with our allies to tighten up on the Kosovo side of the border.'' The ethnic Albanians contend they are treated as second class citizens in Macedonia and are demanding steps to eliminate alleged discrimination against them. Secretary of State Colin Powell agreed with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer of Germany in a telephone conversation that NATO forces in Kosovo should increase security along the border area and deny the extremists any sort of safe haven in Kosovo, Boucher said. Boucher harshly criticized the rebels, calling them ``extremists'' who have ``no legitimacy and don't represent, in our view, the vast majority of Albanian-ethnic citizens of Macedonia. ``Their actions cause serious harm to the interests and image of those who claim to represent the ethnic Albanian community in Macedonia, Kosovo and the region.'' Boucher drew a sharp distinction between the Kosovo Albanians who the United States tried to help two years ago in the NATO air war against Yugoslavia and the ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. In 1999, he said, it was a case of ethnic Albanians trying to protect their homes and families against a Serb army that was bent on ethnic cleansing. ``That's quite a bit different from having people, who live within a multi-ethnic democratic country, trying to assert some sort of control with guns,'' he said. ARTICLE 2 U.S. Planes To Fly PLA to Taiwan? Ed.: And while we’re scolding the "Ruskies" for delivering aid to Iran, top US defense contractors are building up China's air fleet. Excerpts from a Human Events magazine report, featured in WorldNetDaily. By Terence P. Jeffrey …China is swiftly creating another, more insidious, threat to Taiwan, and U.S. policymakers seem oblivious. That threat is the rapid build-up of the PRC’s commercial air fleet… …Since the Gulf War, the PRC has invested billions to modernize and expand its commercial air capacity. That should not be surprising. But perhaps it should be surprising that some top U.S. defense contractors have helped them do it… …Boeing, listed by the Defense Department as its No. 2 contractor, boasts on its corporate website of the help it has given the PRC in bolstering its commercial air capability: …"The Boeing Co. has invested several hundred million dollars in infrastructure development since 1993. From 1993 to 2000, Boeing has instructed over 11,000 Chinese aviation professionals, half of whom are pilots, maintenance and flight operations people." Boeing is helping the PRC develop the ability to build aircraft components and train the personnel needed to maintain and fly large jets. "Training takes place in Seattle, Long Beach, Calif., and China," says Boeing. "A number of those trained by Boeing in the United States return to China as trainers themselves." "Boeing is assisting the CAAC [Civil Aviation Administration of China] in its effort to further develop the Civil Aviation Flying College (CAFC), China’s premier pilot training academy," says the company. "Boeing has given the college two multi-million-dollar 737 simulators, which are used to complete training for instructor pilots…" …Boeing says on its website that it produces elements of its 737s, 747s and 757s in China as part of an "industrial cooperation" program. It also operates three joint ventures in China: an airplane "overhaul and repair" facility, a factory for producing composite materials for use in airplane interiors, and a spare parts center "with 27,000 part numbers available." As of now, reports Boeing, the PRC has 499 large jetliners, 348 of which were built by Boeing. And that is just the beginning. "Boeing forecasts a total market for approximately 1,790 commercial jet airplane sales in China worth U.S $137 billion over the next 20 years," says the company. That will make "China the largest forecasted aviation market outside the United States." Boeing is not alone among top U.S. defense contractors in helping the PRC improve its commercial air capability. Lockheed Martin, the No. 1 U.S. defense contractor, and Raytheon, the No. 3, have installed state-of-the-art air traffic control systems at Chinese airports. Litton Industries, the No. 6 U.S. defense contractor, builds the navigation system used in Airbuses purchased by PRC airlines. It maintains an office at the Airbus Training and Support Center at the Beijing airport. United Technologies, the No. 7 U.S. defense contractor, has several irons in China’s fire. Its Pratt & Whitney subdivision manufactures engines for some Boeing jets purchased by PRC airlines. Its Hamilton Sundstrand subdivision has formed a joint venture with the Shaanxi Qinling Aeroelectric Co. to "overhaul and repair" the electrical power systems in Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Airbus aircraft. Its Sikorsky subdivision is building China two S-76 advanced offshore "search and rescue" helicopters and has joined with the Jingdezhen Helicopter Group and the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corp. (CATIC) to produce the vertical tail fin and stabilizer for the company’s new S-92 "Helibus…" …Sikorsky, the company says, "has proposed, or is in the process of proposing, the S-92 for various international military utility helicopter programs." "The S-92," the company further explains, "is based on proven U.S. Army Black Hawk and U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopters, which have logged more than 4 million hours." One way of looking at all this, of course, is that it is just good business -- U.S. firms staking out market share in a globalizing economy. Surely, the managers of these firms must view it that way. But there is another lens through which it can be viewed: national security. Does it increase or decrease the risk of a major war that would entangle the United States if this particular regime in China builds up its commercial aircraft capability? Maybe the regime that perpetrated the Tiananmen Square massacre is buying up large jets, and building state-of-the art facilities to guide them and maintain them, simply to provide greater mobility to its peasant masses. Maybe all the air assets that U.S. defense contractors have sold the PRC over the last decade will help transform that communist regime into a peace-loving, free-market, anti-imperialist democracy. Maybe Taiwan has sufficient military equipment and expertise to prevent the PRC from ever seizing a Taiwanese airfield. On Dec. 7, 1941, Gen. Douglas MacArthur believed it was so unlikely that Japan would attack the Philippines -- even after he had heard of the Pearl Harbor raid -- that he left his planes on the ground at Clark Field. They were annihilated by Japanese Zeros… ARTICLE 3 Powell Delivers Stern Warning To Russia, Iran Ed.: Trying to balance the Middle-East and keep a defiant Russia at bay. Maybe being Secretary of State is much more difficult than executing presidential orders as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? AFP report from 19 March 2001. WASHINGTON, March 19 (AFP) US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a stern warning to Russia and Iran Monday, putting both nations on notice that the United States was watching their actions closely and would respond should they make moves that could destabilize the Middle East. In an address before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Powell said Washington would not turn a blind eye to repression by Tehran or arms sales by Moscow to the Islamic Republic. The secretary said while President George W. Bush's administration was reviewing its policy toward Iran, it was troubled by Tehran's continued support for terrorism, opposition to Middle East peace efforts and its treatment of minorities, particularly Jews. "It is apparent that certain aspects of Iranian government behavior ... are of deep concern," Powell said, adding that Iranian Jews had been "unfairly charged and harshly imprisoned" in a series of recent criminal cases. "This is of deep concern to the United States and to the American people, and we will not turn aside and ignore this kind of behavior," he said to enthusiastic applause from the pro-Israel crowd attending the speech. At the same time, Powell said the Bush team was intrigued by recent events in Iran that indicated a resurgence of moderate sentiment against the conservative Islamic government. "We are aware of the intellectual and political foment taking place within Iran," he said. "Things are happening, things are changing and we will continue to watch these developments closely and hopefully." Powell also picked up on heavy criticism of Russia leveled by US officials last week after Moscow announced plans to boost military and nuclear cooperation with Iran. "We are also concerned about Iranian efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and to increase its conventional military strength," he said, noting that he had raised the issue in meetings with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and national security advisor Sergei Ivanov. "I have gone so far as to raise with senior Russian officials the role that Russia is playing in these dangerous and destabilizing efforts," Powell said. "We will not overlook what Russia is doing to cause this sort of problem." Washington has warned Moscow that it may face US sanctions should it sell advanced conventional weapons or sensitive technology to Tehran. 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