Show A2 — The Herald H journal Logan Utah Monday April 19 2004 Notion ' EXS tests bomb drop Robot plane Drone carries but without human piloting a prototype bf the Boeing Co’s out test hitting close to target Boeing claims X-4- took off from the desert 5 The inert bomb struck withinches of the truck it was supposed to hit Boeing said adding that had the bomb contained explosives the target would have been destroyed “It's absolutely a huge step forward for us It shows the capability of an unmanned airplane to carry weapons" said Rob Horton Boeing's chief operator for the mission in : surfac- X-4- nd Sunday marking another step forwani for technology the US military hopes will one day replace human pilots on bombing enemy radar and e-to-air missile batteries in order to dear the path for human pilots The tailless plane has a wingspan and weighs 8000 pounds empty It is the first drone designed specifically to carry weapons into combat Other robotic planes including the Predator spy drone currently being used in AP photo Afghanistan have been modified to cany weapons aircraft releases A Boeing Joint Unmanned Combat Air System 5 d bomb Sunday at the Naval an inert global positioning Boeing hopes to build hundreds of the 5 planes Air Warfare Center Weapons Division range in China Lake Calif It which would cost $10 million ' marked another step forward for technology the Pentagon hopes will one day replace human pilots on dangerous combat missions to $15 million each truck shaking around” The 5 A was preprogrammed with the target coordinates and used the satellite-base- d Global Positioning System to adjust its course Horton who was sitting 80 miles from the target authorized the drone to drop the bomb which was released from 35000 feet as the plane flew at 442 mph The military sees such aircraft taking part in its most dangerous missions such as base opened its bomb bay doors dropped a 250-pouSmall Smart Bomb and then landed ' LOS ANGELES (AP) — A robotic plane deliberately dropped a bomb near a truck at Edwards Air Force Base bn dangerous combat missions-Undehuman supervision ‘‘From the video you see the weapon going down and a huge cloud of dust and the ed 34-fo- ot X-4- system-guide- X-4- Rice denies claim decision to go to war came earlier In brief Campus reels after body found ND GRAND FORKS (AP) — A day after the five- - : month search for University of North Dakota student Dru ' Sjodin ended with the discov- cry of her body the campus community reacted with a mixture of mourning and relief Sunday “It has been a long long five months" said Erinn O’ Keefe Hakstol adviser at Sjodin’s sorority Gamma Phi Beta: “I can’t say this is a ' happy ending but now we can really celebrate Dru’s life: She was a great person” Sjodin 22 from Pequot Lakes Minn was last seen alive Nov 22 at a Grand Forks shopping mall Her body was found Saturday in a ravine near a county road northwest of Crookston Minn The sorority sponsored a candlelight vigil Sunday night at the that was school’s Memorial Union and end at the sorority house Charles Kupchella UND president said in a statement ' that Sjodin had many friends “within and beyond" the col- lege ‘The impact on our cam- pus is profound exceeded only by the impact on'Dru's family” he said Alfonso Rodriguez Jr the man charged with kidnapping Sjodin could face a federal murder charge now that her txidy has been found Rodriguez 5 a convicted sex offender has pleaded not WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser Con- doleezza Rice forcefully dis- puted on Sunday an assertion that President Bush decided in early January 2003 to invade Iraq three months before official accounts say the decision was made The statementin Washing- ton Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book about the run-u- p to war is "simply not not right” Rice said Bush told reporters a primetime news conference on March 6 that a UN Security Council resolution authorizing action was days away Ten days ' later having failed to win approval the resolution was withdrawn and the assault began March 20 Rice did not deny the private conversation between her arid Bush just after New Year’s Day in which Woodward said the decision was made but she said the writer had misinterpreted what was said She said Woodward also mis- read another comment attrib- uted to her that since Defense Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld knew of the “go" decision and Secretary of State Colin Powell did not perhaps Bush should tell Powell In the January meeting Rice said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” she and Bush were at the president’s ranch in Craw- ' ford Texas considering the Iraq situation' In such sessions she said Bush “kind of thinks ' - - AP photo Celebrating two victories ' court paid Judges on little-know- n for life despite limited workload ' WASHINGTON (AP)— federJudges on a little-knoal court that decides claims ' ! 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