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...trimmed B-2 orders from 132 planes to 75. According to TIME's sources, White House aides met quietly with Northrop officials last month to discuss a possible halt to the project, which employs 13,000 in the Los Angeles area, once work is completed on the 16 B-2s now in production...
...Administration had requested four new B-2s as part of its goal of acquiring 75 of the bombers by the end of the century; the House action would halt production at the 15 aircraft previously authorized. In cutting Star Wars spending to $3.5 billion from the Administration's requested $5.2 billion, the House freed money for more conventional weapons. The measure also authorized servicewomen to have abortions in military clinics, at their own expense, and cleared female pilots to fly combat missions at the discretion of their services. All these issues are likely to be decided differently when the Senate...
...already the biggest weapons-funding debate in the budget. At $860 million apiece, the B-2 is the most expensive aircraft ever designed. Congress nearly killed the entire program for good last year, but the Pentagon now is seeking more than $4 billion in 1992 to build four B-2s...
...proposed. The Senate completed floor action on its version of a military-spending bill and agreed on an $18 billion cut, including the Milstar satellite communications system (1991 price tag: $1.6 billion) and the C-17 transport (1991 saving: $1.4 billion) but salvaging a pair of the controversial B-2s. Clearly distressed, President Bush called for an orderly funding cutback, "not a fire sale...
...Senate action left open the possibility that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney could save the two B-2s in negotiations between the two chambers. And despite Cheney's urgings, re-election-minded House members reluctant to shut down production lines in their districts have refused to pull the plug on such high-priced weapons as the F-15 fighter, M-1 tank and V-22 transport plane. But the overall impact of last week's cuts was clear: some of the most cherished items on Cheney's wish list have been slam-dunked...