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Last week top Navy officials and the two Avenger contractors, General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas, agreed to ask taxpayers to pick up a big share of the excessive costs, which may be up to $4 billion. If Defense Secretary Dick Cheney approves the plan, Congress will be asked to vote the funds. But there may be serious resistance on Capitol Hill. "A bailout at taxpayers' expense," says House Armed Services Committee member Andy Ireland, "is unconscionable...
Concerned that the Saudis might somehow view U.S. troops as an occupying force, some overzealous field commanders had ordered troops to remove flag patches from their uniforms. But the American Civil Liberties Union protested to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney about a potential infringement of First Amendment rights. Since then, the Stars and Stripes have quietly reappeared...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had conceded before Waller piped up that not all the troops would be "combat ready" by mid-January. But Cheney did not suggest that this should force a postponement of any offensive; Waller...
...long been the most visible symbol of the President's failure to make good on his 1988 campaign pledge to be the "education President." Among those reportedly on the short list to become Cavazos' successor: former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, now president of the University of Tennessee, and Lynne Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities...
Embarrassing the boss is never a good move. In September, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney fired General Michael Dugan as Air Force Chief of Staff for disclosing sensitive Air Force war plans for the Persian Gulf. Last week Vice Admiral Richard C. Gentz, head of the Naval Air Systems Command, became another casualty. He was sacked because he was in charge of an oversight system that failed to alert the Pentagon to problems in the Navy's A-12 attack-bomber program. That led Cheney to assure Congress in April that the plane was on schedule and on budget. In fact...