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- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: Defense Cuts:"Not in My Backyard"
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- DEFENSE CUTS: "Not in My Backyard"
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> Congress keeps insisting on cuts in the defense budget, but
- one of the biggest obstacles is the schizophrenia on Capitol
- Hill: members who fight a rear-guard defense to prevent the
- Pentagon from cutting weapons made in their districts. Last
- week Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,
- announced his opposition to the B-2 Stealth bomber. But other
- costly programs that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants to
- kill are being protected for pork-barrel rather than military
- reasons. Here are Cheney's multi-year savings estimates and the
- reasons they may not be realized:
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- <table>
- Pentagon Projected Primary Leading the Fight
- Hit List Savings Manufacturer to Restore Some
- Funds
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- M-1 tank $6.2 billion General Dynamics Sen. Glenn (OH) &
- (Mich. and Ohio) Sen. Levin (MI)
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- V-22 Osprey $6.5 billion Bell (Texas) Sen. Specter (PA)
- transport Boeing (Pa.) & Rep. Weldon (PA)
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- Apache $2.5 billion McDonnell- Sen. McCain &
- helicopter Douglas (Ariz.) Sen. DeConcini (AZ)
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- F-15 Air $3.3 billion McDonnell- Sen. Dixon (IL) &
- Force Fighter Douglas (Mo.) Rep. Gephardt (MO)
- </table>
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- </article>
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