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...charted no new directions; it merely boosted spending, item by item. If Weinberger looked like a prisoner of the generals on the budget, he appeared to be an amateur in rejecting the advice of his high command on the MX missile and vacillating on a new strategic bomber. After much public agonizing, he failed to come up with a mode for basing the MX and proposed that the U.S. develop both the B-l and Stealth bombers. In passing the Defense appropriation bill last week, the Senate accepted the B-l but rejected Weinberger's plan to harden existing...
Second, the program will develop a variant of the B-1 bomber, possibly deploy 100 aircraft beginning 1986, and will continue research and development toward an advanced technology bomber--"Stealth." B-52Gs and B-52Hs (and eventually B-1s) will carry more than 3000 cruise missiles beginning 1982. Existing KC-135 aerial tankers will receive new engines. I thoroughly support the deployment of 3000 cruise missiles on the B-52s, but believe that since the B-52s launch their cruise missiles from outside Soviet airspace, only the missiles have to penetrate Soviet air defenses, diminishing the need for a penetrating...
...amount seized was smuggled into the region. At the moment, Bade County police have a stash of 162,000 Ibs. of marijuana waiting to be entered as evidence in court cases. The Customs Service has 200 seized cigarette boats and 50 airplanes, including a World War II-era A26 bomber that was, ironically, used by Customs agents on drug cases before it was bought by a marijuana ring...
...bears little resemblance to the official Republican position. In fact, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action give her a higher approval rating than the Conservative Americans for Democratic Action give her a higher approval rating than the Conservative Americans for Constitutional Action. She has voted against the B-1 bomber, increased defense spending, and a measure to scuttle ratification of the ERA. She supported former President Jimmy Carter's human rights policy and worries about Reagan's approach to human rights abuses in foreign countries. Fenwick tells about the time she asked another representative how he was voting on amendments...
DIED. Robert E. Dixon, 75, retired rear admiral who as a Navy pilot in World War II radioed the famous message, "Scratch one flattop," that signaled the sinking of the first Japanese carrier by American warplanes; of cancer; in Virginia Beach, Va. In May 1942 Dixon commanded dive-bomber squadron V52 when 93 American planes attacked the light carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral...