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...long-range fighter that has been flying critical missions over Kuwait and Iraq. The Air Force is scheduled to choose between the two models on April 30. The winning team could take home an order for 750 planes priced at $35 million apiece. (A Navy version designed for carrier operations could yield orders for an additional 550 aircraft.) "It's a hell of a competition," says a congressional staff member. "It should be, considering the cost...
...getting under way. Everyone with a favorite weapons program, whether a member of Congress or a general, points to the gulf war as justification. Last week, for example, Democratic and Republican representatives from New York and Pennsylvania joined forces to order continued production of the F-14 Tomcat, a carrier- based interceptor Cheney says the Navy has in sufficient quantity. Price tag for the congressionally ordered continuation: $987 million...
...border of Kuwait, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad that the U.S. had little to say about Arab border disputes and was eager to improve relations with Iraq. That same day in Washington, anxious State Department officials urged the Pentagon to dispatch the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Independence and its battle group, then in the Indian Ocean, to the mouth of the Persian Gulf -- as a signal to Saddam that the U.S. would not sit idly by if Iraq crossed into Kuwait...
...also been drained. Ninety thousand Marines -- nearly half the corps's manpower -- are in the gulf. The Air Force has sent in more than 1,400 tactical aircraft, about a fourth of its inventory, as well as nearly all of its B-52Gs. Of the Navy's 13 aircraft-carrier battle groups, six are in the gulf theater. Specialized forces in the Far East and Southeast Asia have been reduced...
...fighting, will close; the Army wants a new heavy battle tank and a high-tech helicopter instead. The Navy will eliminate or scale back some weapons designed for battling the Soviets, including its Trident SLBM submarine program and its hunter-killer Seawolf submarine procurement, and reduce its overall carrier group strength from 13 to 12. Increased costs will almost certainly force the Air Force to cut its proposed purchase of 120 C-17 transport planes...