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...time, America's diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, a rescue attempt had crashed in flames in the desert, and the Army--by its generals' own admission--was going "hollow." Though Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter had all promoted the development of new weapons systems--the MX missile, F-117 fighter, the B-2 bomber, the M1 tank--it was under Reagan that those programs bore fruit, along with a mighty, imaginary weapon born all of Reagan's own instincts...
...CHARGES: "He's voted to cancel weapons programs like the Stealth bomber, the [M-1] tank, the Apache helicopter, the MX missile...He's voted to cut $1.5 billion from the intelligence community." --ED GILLESPIE, Republican National Committee chairman, accusing John Kerry of being soft on defense...
...CONTEXT: Kerry did fight the MX, voted to cut funds for missile defense and the B-2 Stealth bomber, and proposed cutting the intelligence budget $300 million a year from 1996 to 2000. But it was the first President Bush who halted production of the MX, and Republicans including Senator John McCain have opposed building more B-2s. On intelligence, Kerry says he wanted to scale back money for expensive spy satellites and put more into human intelligence. Another G.O.P. charge: that Kerry voted 10 times in 1990 against weapons like the F-15, F-16, Patriot missile...
...Reagan-era B-1B bomber fleet (a proposal already causing a fuss in Congress because it spares only the planes based in South Dakota, Tom Daschle's home state, and Texas, George W. Bush's). A scrapping of 50 of the U.S.' nuclear-tipped MX "Peacekeeper" missiles as a possible first step toward a unilateral reduction in the nation's nuclear arsenal. And of course a $3 billion increase in spending on missile defense, to $8.3 billion. Total 2002 cost-cuts: $1 billion. Total structural refashioning: Very little...
...looking things between my teeth when I floss. In search of an upgrade, I tried some cheap, bare-bones shareware programs, but they were buggy and hard to use. Finally I picked up a couple of manly, high-end Web-building packages: Microsoft's FrontPage ($169) and NetObjects Fusion MX ($99). This is serious software aimed at small businesses that need a Web presence, rather than individuals who are building monuments to their self-esteem. I found both of them fairly challenging. If you're used to programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel, you'll probably prefer FrontPage, since...