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President Reagan's election was in part a mandate to restore America's military might. The ensuing debate has been over the size of the much needed buildup: whether military spending should rise by 7% after inflation, as Reagan proposes, or closer to 5%, as President Carter and others have urged. Now the spreading suspicion that billions are being wasted is chipping away at that consensus. Most of the attention has thus far been focused on apocalyptic strategic issues: How can we best deter or fight an all-out nuclear war? Should we deploy new MX missiles...
Despite these problems, Reagan proposes to increase funds for weapons purchases twice as fast as funds for operations and maintenance. The 1985 budget for operations and maintenance is about the same as Carter had projected, even though allocations for weapons procurement are 50% higher than Carter's totals. Spending for operations and maintenance will decrease from 32.6% of the Defense budget in 1982 to 27.3% in 1988, while the share of funds for procurement will jump from 23.7% to 31%. Funds for personnel costs will decline from 31% to 19% of the budget...
...entity" on the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is envisioned in his Sept. 1 peace plan. The problem was that the word homeland, like so many other bits of language concerning the Middle East, has become such a buzzword that it automatically invites an angry reaction. When Jimmy Carter spoke of the need for a Palestinian homeland in 1977, he provoked an uproar in Israel. So once again the White House insisted that the President had meant to say nothing new and that he was merely restating his call for a future link between a West Bank entity...
...Service will be forced to rerun old ads this month urging Americans to file early; there is no money in the IRS budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard from at all this winter in matters of conservation, as it was during the Carter years. Gone, too, is the voice of the almost extinct Consumer Product Safety Commission, which once advertised appeals for safer lawn mowers, chain saws and children's clothing...
...remainder of the period the Engineers managed to show a few signs of life, and only some sharp defensive plays kept them from scoring more than once. Mitch Olson made two key plays in the period, relieving RPI's John Carter of the puck right in front of the Crimson goal at one point and later poking it off the stick of Kraig Neinhuis as be tried to Jam the disc just inside the post from in close...