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National Defense June 2010 Keith A. Delaney	Defense Industry's Help Needed To Avert Rare Metals Supply Crisis Just as the Defense Department and its suppliers worry about dependence on foreign oil, they also must be concerned about growing needs -- and potentially declining supplies -- of rare earth metals.
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