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But now the U.S. Marine Corps is battling its most awesome and implacable enemy: the defense budget squeeze. Says Marine Commandant General Alfred Gray: "The coming budget climate creates the most difficult times for the Marines since World War II."
In a nation that maintains four air forces (the real one plus one in each of the other services), it should come as no surprise that taxpayers are supporting more low-intensity warfare units than they need. But the budget squeeze has sparked a debate about whether the U.S. can...
Are we being ridiculous? I admit that as a kid I saw Roy Rogers shoot-'em- ups and the brutal battles between Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. These didn't warp me for life. But I never saw anything so violent as Batman before I could tie my shoelaces, and...
But the Hate Crimes Statistics Act is already caught up in the Government's financial squeeze. The FBI complains that budget cutbacks will force it to fire 147 staff members from its records division. The dismissals will make it more difficult to compile the bureau's annual Uniform Crime Reports...
With these signs that the West would not take sides with Lithuania, an antiblockade commission was set up in Vilnius to seek ways around the two- week-old oil-and-gas embargo ordered by Gorbachev. It was also exploring possible food-for-oil swaps. But with the Kremlin in control...