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Panel Votes to Close Walter Reed Hospital

A federal panel approves Pentagon plans to close the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon proposes to move most of the operations at Walter Reed to the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital with some services going to a new facility to be built at Fort Belvoir, Va.

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