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- <text id=91TT1134>
- <title>
- May 27, 1991: American Notes:The Gulf War
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 27, 1991 Orlando
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- THE GULF WAR
- Off the Hook?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> U.S. taxpayers may finally have something to cheer about.
- Despite dire predictions, government auditors announced last
- week that incoming payments from foreign allies should cover
- most U.S. expenses for the gulf war.
- </p>
- <p> Sean O'Keefe, the Defense Department's comptroller, told
- the House Budget Committee that the war and its aftermath are
- expected to cost $60 billion. So far, American allies have given
- the U.S. $37 billion out of $55 billion in pledged assistance.
- Any difference between those contributions and actual expenses,
- said O'Keefe, would be paid out of the $15 billion that
- Congress approved in March. But those funds may not be needed:
- the General Accounting Office believes that the cost of the war
- will be lower than Pentagon estimates. If so, allied
- contributions should cover the whole bill.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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