Word: cheney
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...preliminary reports that we have received...are very encouraging," Defense Secretary Richard Cheney said at the briefing...
...Cheney said that no reports of any Iraqi reprisals had been confirmed...
Last week top Navy officials and the two Avenger contractors, General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas, agreed to ask taxpayers to pick up a big share of the excessive costs, which may be up to $4 billion. If Defense Secretary Dick Cheney approves the plan, Congress will be asked to vote the funds. But there may be serious resistance on Capitol Hill. "A bailout at taxpayers' expense," says House Armed Services Committee member Andy Ireland, "is unconscionable...
Concerned that the Saudis might somehow view U.S. troops as an occupying force, some overzealous field commanders had ordered troops to remove flag patches from their uniforms. But the American Civil Liberties Union protested to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney about a potential infringement of First Amendment rights. Since then, the Stars and Stripes have quietly reappeared...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had conceded before Waller piped up that not all the troops would be "combat ready" by mid-January. But Cheney did not suggest that this should force a postponement of any offensive; Waller...