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...that these things might go off if they fell off the back of a truck." More than 300 of the shells were reportedly shipped to the U.S. from West Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea, where they had been deployed, then repaired and sent back. Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon, who chaired Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearings last week, accepts Pentagon assurances that the shells are now entirely safe, but the Pentagon and State Department nevertheless are bracing themselves for an outcry from overseas...
...common thread in the three systems," says Exon, "is the problem of previous-generation high explosives." All three weapons carry them, rather than a less volatile Insensitive High Explosive, which is heavier and thus decreases the range of a missile or artillery shell. By presidential order IHE nonetheless has been used in all new weapons built since 1985 -- with, however, at least one exception. Even after that date, defense planners decided not to switch to IHE in the Trident W-88 warhead. That is a design trade-off that the Pentagon may soon bitterly regret...
House leaders wanted to charge the $50 billion first-year cost of the program to the federal budget. President Bush had threatened to veto the legislation unless Congress agreed to keep most of the outlay off budget, a plan that Nebraska Senator James Exon called a "continuing grand scheme to fool the American taxpayer ((about)) the real cost of the bailout." Near midnight on Friday, Congress approved a compromise worked out with the White House in which only $20 billion of the program's costs will be charged to the budget. The Government will issue special 30-year bonds...
...Wednesday the committee Democrats were in open rebellion against what they saw as an attempted White House whitewash. Nebraska's James Exon declared that the President should start seeking a different nominee. Michigan's Carl Levin asked for more time to look into even newer allegations against Tower. Reading the growing sentiment, Warner suggested that a committee vote be delayed at least until week...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine), who has not announced his position, did not talk with reporters as he left the White House. Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.) has said he expected Mitchell will oppose the nomination, which has failed thus far to attract the public support of any Democratic senator...