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- Aug. 06, 1990: Defense Cuts:"Not in My Backyard"
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Defense Cuts: "Not in My Backyard"
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <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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- <tblhdr><cell>Pentagon hit list<cell>Projected savings<cell>Primary manufacturer<cell>Leading the fight to restore some funds
- <row><cell type=a>M-1 tank<cell type=a>$6.2 billion<cell type=a>General Dynamics (MI and OH)<cell type=a>Sen. Glenn (OH) and Sen. Levin (MI)
- <row><cell>V-22 Osprey transport<cell>$6.5 billion<cell>Bell (TX) Boeing (PA)<cell>Sen. Specter (PA) and Rep. Weldon (PA)
- <row><cell>Apache helicopter<cell>$2.5 billion<cell>McDonnell-Douglas (AZ)<cell>Sen. McCain and Sen. DeConcini (AZ)
- <row><cell>F-15 Air Force fighter<cell>$3.3 billion<cell>McDonnell-Douglas (MO)<cell>Sen. Dixon (IL) and Rep. Gephardt (MO)
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