A little help for a new guy?

[AppliedStucco]

Hello all,

I would really appreciate it if you could help me out here because I'
m stuck.
I don't know if this is even possible, but in the attached file I want the white lines to become the same color as the background (whatever that is) so that the blue hemispheres look sort of like a map. The upper sketch is what I want it to look like on a white background, but when I place a colored background behind the map, the white lines and circles pop up.
I tried coloring, transparency blending, masks, paths and some other stuff but nothing seems to work.

Here is the actual file with layers, etc.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/aji5xdbhbl.ai

So I kindly ask you all, could you have a look and perhaps help me out?

Thanks in advance,
Paris

[Timothy]

Can you change the lines to the background color? If you are wanting to keep them white on the red background, I would use the scissors tool to cut them off in the right spot, or maybe simply putting red rectangles over the top and bottom of the image to sort of sweep them under the rug

[AppliedStucco]

Thanks for the reply but what I'm trying to do is have the white lines and circles on the sketch match the color of the background, whatever that may be. So it won't be a static red or white, but anything.

Thanks again, though