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Stealth still faces 'uphill battle' foir fun din
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Defense Sec
retary Dick Cheney is lobbying con
gressmen behind closed doors in his
"uphill battle" to get funding for the
multibillion-dollar B-2 stealth bomber.
Cheney took word of the plane's
first successful test flight into the first
round of meetings Tuesday with
lawmakers who will debate the fate
of the bomber and the overall $305
billion Pentagon budget next week
on the House and Senate floors.
He said Monday's two-hour flight
of the sinister-looking, dark flying
wing boosted chances the radar-evading
plane will also dodge congres
sional critics who want to stop fund
ing the program.
"Having gotten it this far, it's now
flying and I think we ought to pro
ceed with it," Cheney said before
meeting with a group of House Re
publicans. "I think it would be a seri
ous mistake for us to turn our back
on that system."
But House Speaker Thomas S.
Foley, D-Wash., says Cheney faces
"an uphill battle" for the weapon in
the defense authorization bill.
The bat-like bomber, whose unor
thodox design and materials makes it
tough to track with radar, carries a
$500 million price tag that has
prompted "sticker shock" in budget
conscious lawmakers.
Cheney calls the plane "a first
class aircraft" that represents a sig
nificant advancement in technology,
as well as a major investment of $22
billion so far.
The department has proposed $4.7
billion for the stealth bomber in the
fiscal 1990 budget and wants about
$24 billion for the program during a
peak three-year spending period in
the mid-1990s.
Overall, the Pentagon wants to buy
132 planes for $70 billion.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee last month slashed $800 mil
lion from the B-2 budget. On Friday,
the Senate Armed Services Commit
tee trimmed $300 million from the
Bush administration's request and
included a series of testing require
ments before the plane could go into
full production.
Williams told reporters the suc
cessful test flight should have changed
some minds on Capitol Hill.
"There were many members of
Congress who said they couldn't make
a decision about the B-2 until it had
flown," Williams said.
"It has proven it can fly and that
makes a substantial difference," the
spokesman said.
Quayle's ex-advoseirs tell all in miew book
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Just as Dan
Quayle was settling comfortably into
the vice presidency, several fellows
who helped put him there have pro
voked anger in the White House by
painting an unflattering portrait of
his candidacy.
The old stories about Quayle being
a lightweight and a neophyte not up
to the job he sought are revived in a
new book, "Whose Broad Stripes and
Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of
the Presidency 1988," by political
columnists Jules Witcover and Jack
Germond.
Derisive comments about Quayle's
abilities come not from Democratic
critics, but from the GOP stable of
advisers the Bush campaign assigned
to help manage Quayle among
them political pros Stuart Spencer,
Joseph Canzeri and James Lake.
Canzeri told the authors that
Quayle "was like a kid. Ask him to
turn off a light, and by the time he
gets to the switch, he's forgotten what
he went for."
President Bush is not happy about
the characterizations.
Bush noted Quayle has made two
trips to Latin America for the ad
ministration, as well as heading the
Space Council and contributing to
Bush's morning staff meetings.
"He's a good man and he deserves
something better than a post-mortem
kick in the ... ankles," Bush said.
Aside from an occasional gaffe
he recently referred to moon-traveling
astronaut Buzz Aldrin as Buz
Lukens, the congressman convicted
of corrupting a minor through sexual
activity Quayle has not embar
rassed the administration.
Quayle advisers acknowledge he
hasn't shaken his image problem, and
the new book no doubt will stall prog
ress on that front.
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