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...immediate savings. Salaries and retirement pay account for almost one-fourth of the budget and are hard to reduce because of the need for a steady stream of recruits and re-enlistments in lieu of a draft. The controversial strategic superweapons of the future, such as the B-1 bomber program and the MX missile, will be debated to determine whether the U.S. should commit itself to such huge funding in the years ahead, but even entirely eliminating these two programs this year would reduce actual 1983 outlays by "only" about $5 billion. Operating costs, maintenance, training and ammunition have...
...statistics culled from Western sources; the Soviets almost never reveal their own military data. In one respect, Whence the Threat is even superior to its U.S. counterpart: the Soviets were able to print actual photographs, which are readily available, of such new American weapons as the B-1 strategic bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet effort contains many distortions and a few outright lies. The total strength of the U.S. armed forces is listed at "close to 3 million servicemen," when...
...weakness of the Reagan Administration's effort, is that it does not address U.S. and Soviet forces in comparative terms. Thus much is said about the U.S.'s Ohio class Trident submarine, but nothing about the U.S.S.R.'s new Typhoon equivalent; much about the B-1 bomber, but nothing about a new Soviet strategic bomber under development. The Soviets term the U.S. space shuttle a "space attack system," but omit mention of their own orbiting "killer" satellite...
...Louis, 66, the "Brown Bomber," one of the best heavyweights ever, whose thunderous punch leveled the likes of James J. Braddock, Billy Conn and Tony Galento. In a memorable vengeance match with racist overtones that was over in a lightning 2 min. 4 sec. of the first round, he crushed Germany's Max Schmeling in 1938. As champ from 1937 to 1949, he defended his title a record 25 times, but never pocketed the monster purses common today and spent years in debt...
...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...