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Base closing targets await final review.

Byline: Ana Radelat

Mar. 16--WASHINGTON -- Two months before his deadline to make a final decision, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has a list of military bases recommended for closure on his desk but hasn't finished his review and may make changes, a Pentagon official and analysts say.

Phil Grone, a Pentagon official who is in charge of recommending bases for closure and reorganization, has been lobbied by dozens of lawmakers and countless citizens groups who want to save their local military installations.

But in an interview with Gannett News

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