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...sides, though, are still far apart on aircraft. The U.S. has proposed that its NATO allies be permitted to maintain on European soil up to 4,700 general combat planes and 500 interceptor craft. These 5,200 planes would represent a cutback of about 1,500 units. The Soviets, with as many as 10,000 more planes in the landmass east of the Urals than NATO, have offered a ceiling of about 8,700. That, says the U.S. negotiator, is a "total nonstarter." There is growing speculation that the U.S. will seek to exclude aircraft from the CFE table altogether...
...already occurred and that the economy will soon be ready for takeoff again. A survey of executives published last week by Dun & Bradstreet concluded that "business optimism has reached a turning point and businesses are regathering strength for the second half of 1990." Consumers are not so sure. Their cutback in spending during the October-December quarter was largely responsible for the economy's poor performance...
President Bush has called for the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce their troop levels in Europe to 275,000 on each side. That would require a cutback of 325,000 in Soviet forces and 30,000 in U.S. troops. President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has offered to go down...
More striking than the size of the Pentagon's proposed cutback was the timing of its announcement. Bush has become adept at letting the most conservative Cabinet members announce liberal-sounding policy changes that could anger the Republican right. It thus fell to Cheney to disclose that the Pentagon is examining conventional-weapons cuts that would go beyond Bush's plan, unveiled at last May's NATO summit, to reduce U.S. and Soviet forces to 275,000 each. Some Pentagon officials are worried that the talk about reducing defense spending could, in the words of one, give some allies...
With Harvard gaining massive yardage on cutback option plays in the first half, Steele made the decision to take the Crimson's cutbacks away...exactly like Restic figured he would...