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U.S. Plans II: Cities Lobby to Become X-Band Radar Base Some U.S. cities that border the Pacific Ocean are lobbying the Defense Department to station a floating missile-defense radar near their communities, the Seattle Times reported yesterday (see GSN, June 19). The Sea-Based Test X-Band Radar would be part of the developing national missile-defense system. The Defense Department is considering positioning the radar platform in the Marshall Islands; Adak, Alaska; Valdez, Alaska; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Ventura, Calif.; Oxnard, Calif.; or Everett, Wash. Adak Mayor Chuck Luck traveled to Washington Tuesday to promote his island community as a good home for the radar, while Everett Mayor Frank Anderson has vigorously opposed it, noting that the radar could rise 25-stories above the sea. “We could have shook hands and said, ‘Everett doesn’t want it — give it to us,’” Luck said. “We’re a struggling city. We’re trying to build our economy and our tax base,” he added. Meanwhile, Ventura and Valdez officials have also lobbied for the radar platform. “They are talking about putting this monstrosity literally in our downtown,” Anderson said. “If there are places that want it, why don’t they take Everett off the list? We’d be happy to help them get it,” he added (Rachel Tuinstra, Seattle Times, July 23).
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