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Congress

Polish Leaders Begin Selling Citizens On European Missile Defense System, Before Legislators Act On Approval

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Monday, September 8th, 2008

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has begun campaigning among Polish citizens to build support for U.S. plans to construct a European Missile Defense (EMD) system, promising local residents that the government will build new roads for them as part of the EMD program. The EMD would include ground silos housing interceptors, a variant of the Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) system now installed in Alaska and California. The Boeing Co. [BA] leads the GMD/EMD programs that also include many other major…

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