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Space weapons seen as possibility.
Byline: Bryan Bender
May 19--WASHINGTON -- President Bush next month is expected to give the Pentagon broader authority to protect American satellites in space and could also grant the Air Force the green light to deploy space-based weapons, according to administration officials and defense specialists outside government.
Three years in the making, the new space policy is expected to go well beyond the last set of guidelines, issued by President Bill Clinton in 1996, that emphasized using satellites for such defensive purposes as overseeing disarmament treaties and environmental cleanups. The new policy, which is still being drafted with the input of the Defense Department, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other civilian agencies, may go as far as to allow offensive weapons to be deployed, said some defense officials who are involved in the process.…
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