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Pentagon to Rescind Order Dissolving Stars and Stripes Newspaper

Carla Babb

   The Pentagon says it will rescind its order for a government-funded,
   independent military newspaper to cease publication by September 30,
   nearly a week after President Donald Trump tweeted that he would stop
   budget cuts from his own administration that would have closed Stars
   and Stripes.

   "You do not have to submit the Plan of Action and Milestones for a
   Stripes closure in FY 2021," Army Colonel Paul Haverstick, the acting
   director of Defense Media Activity, wrote in an email Thursday to the
   publisher of Stars and Stripes.

   The Department of Defense spending plans, released in February,
   eliminated all government funding for the paper'¯for fiscal 2021, which
   begins October 1.

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