Ironically, there are rumors of flagging Navy support in recent budget deliberations for a program that could effectively provide U.S. carrier battle groups with several means for mitigating these missile threats: the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS).

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Bachelet made her announcement minutes after more than 130 countries adopted a 17-page U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women after two weeks of tough negotiations at the Commission on the Status of Women.

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Earlier reports indicated that the Serbs were attacking Zepa from the north and southwest, but U.N. officials described the combat as skirmishes rather than a concerted effort to defeat Bosnian government forces.

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Finalists: Juliette Kayyem of The Boston Globe for her colorful, well reported columns on an array of issues, from women in combat to oil drilling in Alaska, and Mark Di Ionno of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.

WSJ: 2013 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts