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...Reduce the purchase of B-2 Stealth bombers from 132 to 75. But Cheney did not persuasively explain why the U.S. needs another expensive, as yet unproven strategic bomber at all when the Air Force already has the new B-1 bomber and the still reliable B-52. Moreover, in one of the traditional paradoxes of military procurement, slashing and stretching out the Stealth program will increase the per-plane cost from $530 million to $815 million...
...Proceed with production of the Navy's A-12 attack bomber, but slash the purchase order from 858 to 620. This was the first public confirmation that Cheney assumes that the Navy will operate with twelve aircraft-carrier battle groups, two less than at present. It also means no longer relying on the % Navy's A-6 attack...
...most endangered contractors will be those whose business is almost purely defense work. Northrop, the lead contractor on the B-2 bomber, counted on military sales for 92% of its 1989 revenues of $5.2 billion. Besides the Stealth bomber (price for each plane: $540 million), the company builds so- called smart weapons systems, guidance modules for MX missiles and other military hardware. After losing $80.5 million last year, the company cut costs by selling its Gulfstream IV corporate jet in January and its glass-and-steel headquarters tower in Century City, Calif., for $218 million in March. If congressional proposals...
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK. Manufacturers of four of the Pentagon's most controversial projects -- the B-2 Stealth bomber, the F-15E and F-14D fighter planes, and the V-22 transport aircraft -- are using tax dollars to persuade Congress not to cut their programs. The manufacturers are allowed to deduct $1.4 million spent advertising the merits of their products. The Pentagon tried last year to kill the F-14D and the V-22, but Congress restored funding...
...issues surrounding the war are so emotionally charged even now, some people counsel continued caution in dealing with the government of Vietnam. "Any improvement has to be gradual," says Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy attack bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967. "Below the surface, there is a very strong anti-Vietnamese feeling. When you get down to the V.F.W. halls, the American Legion halls, these people still have the feeling that the U.S. was damaged and humiliated in that conflict." Nonetheless, says McCain...