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...capitalize on the scrapping of SALT II because of two basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority would permit Soviet strategic forces to grow 65% by 1989, compared with 45% for the U.S. The House Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution last week urging the President to adhere to the limits, and legislation has been introduced in both the House...
...letter asking for a $2 billion cut in money for SDI, arguing that funding should be kept to "approximately 3% real growth." Some legislators are reluctant to fund SDI because they see it as the death knell of SALT II, the ABM pact and arms control in general. Aspin predicts that Congress will freeze this year's $2.8 billion SDI budget. The members of the House Armed Services Committee, he says, rank SDI as a low priority. In the Senate, a subcommittee working on the SDI funding proposal cut $800 million from the Administration request last Friday, with conservative Republican...
...watching someone do what Riccò did on Sunday. Two-thirds of the way through the torturous ninth stage, the rail-thin blond, who had emerged with a second-place finish in last month's Giro d'Italia, burst from the pack on the category-one Col d'Aspin ascent, blowing past opponents in a stunning display of power...
Some skeptics charged that the speech was part of an increasing Pentagon propensity toward "threat inflation." Explained Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin: "We are seeing a more exaggerated and disingenuous presentation of the Soviet threat than we have seen in the past." As an example of how this works, critics point to Defense Department hype two years ago for the new Soviet T-80 tank. It was depicted in briefings and a Pentagon publication as fast, heavily armored and bristling with grenade and missile launchers. That was when the Administration was anxious to secure funding for America...
...holding hands with a person of the same sex might be. Gay-rights activists argued that the regulations are so vague that officers will be able to enforce them in whatever way they see fit. The constitutionality of the policy is also in question, and outgoing Defense Secretary Les Aspin has said, ''We fully expect lawsuits on this...