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Cheney has offered Congress a blueprint for cutting $10 billion from the $305 billion budget request submitted by President Reagan just before he left office last January. In his plan, Cheney hopes to spare major strategic weapons like the B-2 Stealth bomber by trimming smaller but costly programs, notably Grumman's F-14D jet fighter (saving: $2.4 billion) and the V-22 Osprey ($7.8 billion), an innovative tiltrotor aircraft made by Boeing and Bell Textron. The Defense Secretary worked the Capitol Hill corridors last week to make his case, while President Bush courted key Senators and Representatives over...
...during the next two years, and to authorize those only if the Bush Administration agrees to scale back its $70 billion program. The House also chopped $1.8 billion from the Administration's $4.9 billion request for the Strategic Defense Initiative, cut $502 million out of Bush's $1.9 billion plan for a rail- launched MX missile, and completely eliminated $100 million for the Midgetman missile. Griped Bush: "Yesterday was not the House's most memorable moment." The Senate is expected to complete its own, equally tough spending prescriptions this week. Differences between the two versions will be resolved...
...which lost $78 million in the second quarter, is cutting its work force by 3,000 workers, to 41,000. St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas (1988 defense sales: $9.7 billion), the largest U.S. military contractor, reported a loss of $48 million during the same period. If Cheney sells his plan to end production of the company's AH-64 Apache helicopter in 1991, as many as 4,000 McDonnell Douglas workers in Mesa, Ariz., and Culver City, Calif., could lose their jobs...
...people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going to be solved by having nicer parks. I speak with no sentiment...
...J.S.P.'s first major test will be to produce, as promised, an alternative plan to the unpopular consumption tax. Last week the Socialists had little problem persuading the other opposition parties to introduce a bill in the upper house to kill the tax. But the parties were unable to agree on an alternative source of revenue for the government, which needs the money for funding welfare programs, especially the soaring costs of providing care for Japan's aging population...