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...accident immediately cast further doubt on an innovative program Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has repeatedly attacked. But despite the catastrophe, the Osprey managed to survive a general drive to trim defense costs as the Senate Armed Services Committee made its final changes in the 1993 defense authorization bill. The committee endorsed the House figure of $775 million for Osprey prototypes, though it mandated that only 50% of the funds can be spent until the Marine Corps Commandant reports fully on the crash. Surprisingly, the Senate agreed with the House figure of $4.3 billion for the Strategic Defense Initiative. The committee...
Even as Defense Secretary Dick Cheney moved last week to put the Tailhook scandal behind him by naming a squeaky-clean number cruncher as Acting Navy Secretary, the Pentagon found itself embarrassed by new reports of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Navy...
...first message as the Navy's Acting Secretary, former Pentagon comptroller Sean O'Keefe, 36, called on all officers to cooperate "fully and truthfully" with the Pentagon probe into Tailhook. Appointed by Cheney for only a 120-day term, O'Keefe will sidestep Senate approval. Good news for the Navy, since confirmation hearings would have given lawmakers another chance to sound off against the already scandal-weary service...
...supplies from the U.S. arrived in the first two days. Giant cargo planes also flew in from Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and other countries. The food and medicine were then trucked -- under Canadian guard -- into the desperate city of 400,000 people. In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said American air and naval forces would be available if they are needed to protect the relief flights or future truck convoys...
...intervention requires strong leadership that sets clear and achievable political objectives and assembles sufficient forces -- conditions met in Desert Storm but not so far in the Balkans. The U.S., conspicuously, wants the European nations to take the lead. They have been just as conspicuously unwilling. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney last week said American planes would supply air cover and support to an international expedition, but insisted that under no circumstances would American troops be sent into ground combat in what he calls "an internal civil...