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Voted Down. Critics of the bill made three significant attempts to cut back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...
...Pentagon critics agreed that their defeat was caused by their own lack of organization and by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's self-imposed cutback of $4.1 billion. Further, Laird promised more appropriations reductions over the next three years by cutting military personnel from 3.5 to 2.6 million men. Currently the military's payroll is $41 billion annually...
...bought Brunswick shares from the same broker at the time. They also note that no substantial price fluctuations occurred between the decision and its disclosure, and that the $130,000 involved in the case was hardly significant to Brunswick, which at that time had annual revenues of nearly $400 million...
...projects-which will be Federaly-subsidized-will probably cost about ?8 million, Administration sources said last night. No completion date has yet ?een set, but such construction generally takes around 18 months...
Opponents of the Harbor site object to the cost to city and state governments. State Senate President Maurice A. Donahue said Monday that the necessary state appropriations (estimated at $175 million) could not be "justified in terms of proper ordering of social priorities...