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Carter's Big Decision: Down Goes the B1, Here Comes the Cruise...
...some of the men who fly aboard them. In contrast, there was jubilation among liberals like New York Representative Jonathan Bingham and Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. who have long argued that the B-1 is an outlandishly expensive dinosaur. Iowa Democrat John Culver, a leading Senate opponent of the B1, elatedly called Carter's move a "victory for common sense-the most constructive and courageous decision on military spending in our time...
...Many Bucks. Carter had promised during the campaign that he would kill the B1. Just a year ago, he told the Democratic Platform Committee: "The B-1 bomber is an example of a proposed system which should not be funded and would be wasteful of taxpayers' dollars." But after his election last November, he somehow managed to give nearly all the people connected with the decision the impression that he would change his mind. To their astonishment, he declared firmly at his press conference last week that, at more than $100 million per bomber, the B-1 was both...
...food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does a lunch of a three-ounce hamburger with French fries and a cola - at about one-tenth of the cost. Said Arnall: "The dog is eating better than we are." Well, cheaper, anyhow...
Backfire may be fully operational within two years. Though the U.S. is expected to maintain its lead in numbers of intercontinental bombers until 1975 or so, the B1, designed to replace the subsonic B-52 at a cost of $11 billion, will not be operational before 1978. Why bother with such costly mammoths in an age of intercontinental missiles? "The B-l can go, and then be recalled, and you can't do that with missiles," says one Pentagon official. "You don't make an irrevocable commitment with an aircraft." Congress, nonetheless, has yet to be sold...