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...admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...example, said Grassley and Kassebaum, the Reagan Administration had provided 76% more money for the purchase of aircraft and 48% more for production of warships than the Carter Administration had in its four years --yet wound up putting 12% fewer warplanes and 17% fewer major fighting ships into service than the previous Administration had. One reason: to get some weapons systems built, "we are paying up to $700 per standard hour for work normally done in the private sector for between $40 and $60." The Pentagon's response: the weapons it is buying are more advanced, technically sophisticated and effective...
Nonetheless, Grassley and Kassebaum recommend an outright freeze on military spending as the only way to shock the Pentagon into the "substantive management reforms" that would buy fighting efficiency rather than military fat. Other lawmakers advance the idea of a freeze on viscerally political grounds rather than in the cause of efficiency. Their argument to the White House is in effect: Don't ask us to cut spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least...
...significant addition to the ranks of traditional liberal protesters came last week. Indiana's Republican Senator Richard Lugar, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, head of a subcommittee on Africa, sent a letter to Reagan urging him to speak out more forcefully against apartheid. They complained that the State Department had failed to attack "the evils of apartheid and the violations of human rights in a straightforward, understandable manner." In addition, 35 conservative Congressmen, including such New Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol...
Among the five Republican stars, Kassebaum, O'Connor and Armstrong came closest to leading conventional homemakers' lives during the 1950s and '60s. Heckler and Dole have always held paying jobs, the former member of Congress from 1967 until last year, the latter a fast- track Washington bureaucrat under every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry...