Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imperious, imperialist villain who is thrusting upon the peace-loving West Europeans weapons that they neither want nor need. It is one of the many ironies of the whole episode that it was the West Europeans who originally asked for a NATO buildup, and that the U.S. agreed to proceed with the deployment program despite strong misgivings about its military and political rationale...
...Pacific. So far, Nakasone's efforts to boost military spending have been disappointing to Washington. In his first draft budget, presented last December, Nakasone lowered the planned purchase of U.S.-built F-15 fighters from 20 to 13, dropped one of three destroyers from its naval buildup, and reduced tank orders from 75 to 60. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg later declared that Japan's defense commitment "falls short" of its responsibilities, although he noted that the country faces "domestic financial difficulties...
...conservatives especially, much of network reporting, and not just at CBS, can seem highly editorialized. The Administration contends that defense expenditures help stimulate the economy. ABC's Economics Editor Dan Cordtz countered, in a report, that a major military buildup would provide "the wrong jobs in the wrong places." ABC closed its evening news program a few days before Christmas with a montage of children on Santa's knee in Beaver County, Pa., asking not for toys but for jobs for their unemployed fathers...
There were hints of a breakthrough on only one of the problems. Fortunately it was the most important: runaway deficits. For the first time, President Reagan softened his formerly obdurate opposition to any reduction in the giant military buildup he has planned...
...will continue to cut down programs aimed at students, but will soon begin supporting efforts to improve the competence and motivation of math and science teachers. Professor Wirszup hopes that it will not be too little, too late. "This Administration has given its fullest attention to the Soviet arms buildup," he says. "But the Soviets also now have the manpower for a military-industrial complex at a very high level. We need an education effort of mammoth proportions, for our economic survival and for our defense. ' ' - By Ellie McGrath. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Roger Witherspoon/Atlanta