Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Columbia has finally flown, NASA-like the returning shuttle-seems to be "right on the money." But the military role of the program is surely going to increase because the Pentagon hopes eventually to send up almost all of its payloads by shuttle. Air Force planners are thinking of buying one or two shuttles for their exclusive use. They are also developing a new portable booster to be carried aboard, thus overcoming one of the shuttle's notable limitations. It can operate only in low earth orbit (at altitudes from 115 to 690 miles). But the new booster...
...Soviet Union regularly protests the shuttle program as a plot of "U.S. elite classes to place weaponry in space." But at the same time, the U.S.S.R. is known to have demonstrated "killer" satellites that can knock other satellites out of the sky. To meet this threat, the U.S. is considering anti-satellite weapons of its own. Eventually these may even include high-powered laser and particle beams that could destroy a hostile satellite or an incoming missile. In 1980, then Secretary of Defense Harold Brown declared the shuttle essential to future U.S. military planning. However true that was a year...
...caught up on some of the routine proclamations that had piled up while he was in the hospital, and held discussions on important questions with his top aides. But the meetings were brief because Reagan tired quickly. One participant in a session dealing with the President's economic program reported that Reagan began alertly and was full of questions, but showed obvious signs of fatigue after half an hour. Meanwhile, essential decisions are being made but little forward planning is getting done. Says one White House adviser: "We're losing momentum, and it will be difficult to recapture...
...most obvious loss of thrust has been suffered by the economic program. At a White House meeting last week, Chief of Staff James Baker observed that the program was proceeding satisfactorily because even Democrats in Congress are now committed to substantial cuts in spending and taxes, as the President wants. Reagan dryly responded, "If things are going so well, how come I'm not jumping up and down?" He had a point. While he was in the hospital, the program suffered two setbacks: first, three conservative Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee joined Democrats in rejecting a budget resolution...
...that he had been approached by representatives of the Treasury Department to talk compromise. The White House quickly denied any such wavering of intent. "Why should the President compromise?" asked Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "He is doing fine standing still." Vice President George Bush declared that Reagan's program must be passed "unsalamied"-meaning that it should not be subjected to the "salami tactic" of paring it down slice by slice. Bush also implied that Reagan would veto a bill cutting taxes for one year only. The President, in a statement issued on income tax day, April 15, asserted...