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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Indonesia wants foreig troops out by March
USS Abraham Lincoln steamed out of Indonesian waters Wednesday after the Indonesian government declined to let the ship's fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions. Under U.S. Navy rules, pilots of carrier-based warplanes cannot go longer than 14 days without flying or their skills are considered to have degraded too far and they have to undergo extensive retraining.

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