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- October 29, 2009
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The Nation
Obama surprise: President Obama made a surprise visit on Wednesday night to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the arrival of the flag-draped caskets of 18 soldiers killed in Afghanistan, where October has been the deadliest month of the war in Afghanistan for U.S. forces.
Wayward flight: Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbitt, the nation's top aviation official, said air traffic controllers didn't notify the military as quickly as they should have when they lost contact with the Northwest Airlines plane that ended up overshooting its destination of Minneapolis by 150 miles ...