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...military for constantly revising plans; the Pentagon blames the contractors for slovenliness and inefficiency. Meanwhile, production lead times stretch out: the order-to-delivery time for Pratt & Whitney's F-100 aircraft engine, for example, has lengthened from 19 to 38 months in the past two years. Experts warn that the industry does not have the capacity to build arms at the pace that Reagan wants. General Alton D. Slay, head of the Air Force Systems Command, told Congress in December that "even if we go all out for mobilization of our resources," the U.S. "would not begin...
...warn you that if you do not resist, dictatorship will prevail and reduce you to misery...
Even before Reagan made his televised threat. Democrats were having second thoughts about trying to get by with unrealistic cuts that would later be reversed. Congressman Leon Panetta of California, a member of the Budget Committee, telephoned Perkins in Kentucky to warn that the Republicans, as they had with the bipartisan budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start...
...Capitol Hill, saw Haig's visit in another light. Taipei contends that China is using its ties with the U.S. only to conquer short-term difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later it will eat you as well...
...before the fight even began, in hopes of effecting a compromise that Reagan never had any intention of making. White House aides reply that the Democrats were so splintered on taxes that no fruitful negotiations were possible. The fight will just about reverse traditional party roles: the Democrats will warn stridently against inflationary deficits; the Republicans will argue that economic stagnation is a greater danger than...