Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, the University already is involved in "economic discrimination" against students who are on ROTC. Moreover, the Pentagon is now considering making the amount of aid that students involved in the Navy and Air Force branches receive conditional on whether their schools sponsor ROTC on campus...
...offers in return assurances that have little to do with the Soviets' real fears -- political deterioration inside the bloc, not a military threat from outside. Moreover, the forces that stand ready to exploit the trouble are also internal, not external; they are domestic hard-liners, not CIA or Pentagon mischief-makers...
...part, the U.S. Defense Department, based on its history of cooperation with the Japanese Defense Agency, sees few dangers in the FSX. Pentagon planners say the Japanese will learn little from the aging F-16 airframe. At the same time, the Pentagon covets Japan's miniaturized phased- $ array radar technology, which will use thousands of tiny, independent sensors to sweep large sections of the sky. The new radar will provide sharper resolution and greater range than traditional back-and-forth scanners. In addition, the Japanese will pay for the development of a larger, stronger and lighter wing...
WASHINGTON--Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.) urged the Pentagon to keep the final two SSN-688 attack submarines in the 1990 budget, but congressional sources said the Defense Department has decided to eliminate the subs in a cost-cutting move...
...Tuesday, Reps. John G. Rowland (R-Conn.) and Herbert H. Bateman (R-Va.) disclosed that Pentagon officials were considering cutting the subs from the budget as part of an overall plan to cut $10 billion from the defense spending plan submitted by former President Ronald W. Reagan. A final decision on the cuts is expected to be announced next week...