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House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin did not quote that bumper- sticker slogan last week, but he made the same point. Reversing his previous support for the Stealth bomber, Aspin urged a halt in future production for two main reasons: 1) the virtually undetectable plane's costs are soaring ($63 billion for 75 planes), and 2) the ebbing of the Soviet threat has left the bomber without a clear-cut mission. Says Aspin: "Much has happened in the past year, but nothing that has happened has improved the case...
...drew on it. A more pertinent example of a low-cost Reagan switch comes from his days as Governor of California. Reagan, as part of his general opposition to high taxes, believed that taxpaying should be an obvious and unpleasant activity -- "Taxes should hurt" was a favorite slogan -- and he was therefore opposed to state income tax withholding, a position on which, he said, "my feet are in concrete." When, after a few years in Sacramento, he found that the state could not generate a livable cash flow unless withholding was instituted, he unlocked himself -- and announced the change...
...year during National Skin Cancer Awareness Week, literature and posters are distributed and dermatologists conduct free skin-cancer screenings. In the state of Victoria, lifeguards are used as role models. They sit in shaded areas, pass out skin-cancer literature, don hats and wear T shirts emblazoned with the slogan SLIP! SLOP! SLAP! -- which practically everyone Down Under understands to mean "Slip on a shirt. Slop on some sunscreen. Slap...
Although the heat may have disrupted today'sactivities, the city of Houston is making nosecret of the fact that it is hot. Houstonofficials are looking to the summit to revive acity devastated by the oil bust of the early1980s, and have promoted a new slogan--"Houston'sHot"--to prove...
...main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that supply the vehicles with electric power. Another group briefly occupied a cable car, jostling passengers and posting in the window a placard bearing the slogan SILENCE=DEATH. By week's end police had arrested and released more than 400 demonstrators...