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- June 10, 1991: American Notes:Defense
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- DEFENSE
- Turning Off The Radars
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- <p> When it comes to military cost cutting, the sky's the limit.
- Starting July 1, the Pentagon will save $38 million a year by
- shutting down the radar command center at Mountain Home Air
- Force Base in Idaho, one of the two major monitoring facilities
- that constantly scan the heavens for Soviet bombers flying
- toward North America. The other center, at Bangor Air National
- Guard Base in Maine, will continue operating, but on a part-time
- basis. "I think it's better than nothing," says Republican
- Senator William Cohen of Maine, who lobbied to keep the Bangor
- radar working. But he expects it to provide only a minimal
- safeguard. U.S. military officials insist, however, that the
- country will not be caught with its guard down. The Pentagon
- plans to rely more on its vast network of sensors and
- intelligence operations to protect North America against the
- possibility of a Soviet air attack.
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