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...Base, for example, which probably would have been mothballed anyway if Andrew hadn't got to it first. Bush wanted to spend $480 million rebuilding Homestead. Why not use the money to rebuild Floridians' actual homes? And what the Pentagon won't take, someone else will buy: 72 F-15s to provide jobs for Missourians, 150 F-16s for the Texans -- with Saudi Arabia and Taiwan footing the bills...
Miffed China and Israel but mollified angry aerospace workers by okaying the sale of $6 billion worth of F-16s to Taiwan and $9 billion worth of F-15s to Saudi Arabia...
...salaries of 8,188 Senior Executive Service employees. The net savings would be about $270 million, a figure the President could easily cover if he expanded what one wag has called "George Bush's Going out of Business Sale" by offering the Saudis just four more $70 million F-15s -- which, needless to say, the kingdom would gladly...
...trying to make sure that customer gets a fair shake inside the U.S.," says John Capellupo, the president of McDonnell Aircraft. The contractors' argument is that if the U.S. turns down the deal, the Saudis will go to a European manufacturer. The Saudis have 96 F-15s, which they began acquiring in the early 1980s, but when the U.S. refused sales in mid-decade, the Saudis acquired British-made Tornado jets in a deal ultimately valued at $30 billion. "The question," says Vince O'Reilly, spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "is whether the Saudis buy aircraft made...
Hale offered a variety of strategies for coping with this shortfall, ranging from canceling the ATF and replacing it with an upgraded (but still not stealthy) version of the existing F-15s to ordering only a handful of ATFs and deploying them in a small force of killer fighters: "silver bullets" in the jargon of the field. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had earlier put forward a compromise that would continue research on the ATF but hold off on procurement, staying for now with...