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...Pentagon budget is still staggering in size -- more than a quarter of annual federal outlays. But in fiscal 1990, for the fifth year in a row, defense spending will grow at a slower rate than inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the $295 billion spending request that Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has submitted for 1990 is 15% smaller than the 1985 budget...
From the Oval Office, Bush monitored reports and summoned top advisers, including Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and other Cabinet members, said Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater...
...plan exposed a rift within the Administration over trade policy. Commerce Department officials argued that easing export controls would allow U.S. companies to compete with computer makers in such countries as Taiwan and Singapore, which already sell relatively advanced machines to Soviet-bloc buyers. But Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, who advocates strict controls on the transfer of American technology to Moscow, warned that the Soviets would use the U.S. computers for military purposes. Nonetheless, a Cheney aide said the Defense Secretary would not ask Bush to reverse the Commerce Department decision...
...assault on the Stealth. Says the committee's ranking Republican member, William Dickinson of Alabama: "The B-2 program is in a lot of trouble, not for technical reasons but simply by price tag." Declares Ohio Congressman John Kasich: "Nobody's pushed harder for the ((Secretary of Defense Dick)) Cheney / defense budget than I, but America cannot afford the B-2." To South Carolina Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr., cancellation of the B-2 is inevitable, "just like death and taxes...
...there agreement on the strategic justification for the bomber. Cheney argues that the Stealth is needed to maintain "the effectiveness of the bomber leg of the strategic triad," the mix of land- and sea-based missiles and nuclear weapons carried by aircraft on which U.S. deterrence has been based. Welch contends that bombers are regarded by both the U.S. and the Soviets as "the most stabilizing element of the triad." Unlike missiles that can strike in 30 minutes or less, bombers need hours to reach their targets and hence do not represent a first-strike threat against the Soviets. Moreover...