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...Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and four other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Attorney General Edwin Meese to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Deaver's discussions with former colleagues on matters including South Korean trade, tax breaks for Puerto Rico and continued support for Rockwell International's B-l bomber. Within 90 days, Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted...
Stockman wanted to get $8 billion out of defense outlays next year on top of the $34 billion from other agencies. Even so, Stockman's plan would permit the Pentagon to proceed with development of 48 more MX missiles, the B-l bomber and the President's Star Wars defense against a nuclear missile attack...
...chambers will vote twice on whether to produce 21 MX missiles. Although Congress has funded a first batch of 21 missiles, foes of the weapon believe that the MX program can be shut down before 1986 deployment if Congress balks this time. Congress may also refuse to build more B-l bombers beyond the 100 already paid for. Reagan's request for $1.7 billion in research funds for his Star Wars plan will encounter determined opposition on Capitol Hill. Congress has allowed testing of an antisatellite weapon, but it may refuse to pay for all-out development...
...four years not an inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration had tried to kill the plane. Said Reagan: "Mondale has made a career out of weakening America's armed forces...
...Carter Administration had practiced "unilateral disarmament." Toward the end of his term Jimmy Carter set a policy of raising military expenditures faster than the rate of inflation, though earlier he had canceled the B-l bomber and backed off the neutron bomb...