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...direction we're going." Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams, however, insisted that the Air Force would keep the warheads on "alert" status, at least until the safety study is completed. But the Pentagon may have trouble maintaining that stand in the face of public pressure; Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney scheduled a weekend meeting with weapons-laboratory scientists and Energy Secretary James Watkins to consider what to do. SRAM-A is scheduled to be replaced eventually by a longer-range missile, SRAM-II. However, the problems with the older weapon might keep NATO from approving a future tactical version...
...letter to Defense Secretary Richard Cheney sent last week by the Association of American Universities and three other college organizations...
Dyer said a senior Pentagon official would probably meet with the AAU, but that she was uncertain whether that official would be Cheney himself...
...April 10, MIT Provost John M. Deutch sent a personal letter to Cheney, in which he said many schools might end their ROTC programs if the exclusionary policy did not change. Earlier this spring, the University of Wisconsin faculty voted to end its assocation with ROTC, although the state's Board of Regents subsequently reversed the decision, decision...
...universities' actions were given added impetus by the military's recent decisions to demand repayment of ROTC scholarship money from three cadets discharged for their sexual orientation. On two separate occasions, members of Congress sent letters to Cheney slamming the Pentagon for seeking repayment...