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Searching for the Elusive Peace Dividend |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--AMERICA'S DEFENSE: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH NOW? |
| Author: Donald Lambro |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,342 Words, 13,929 Characters |
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As the once-mighty specter of Soviet and Eastern European communism is being swept away by wave after wave of demands for democracy and freedom, the focus of America's budget debate has shifted to cutting its huge and costly military arsenal.
President Bush has further fueled that debate by offering a defense budget for fiscal 1991 whose rate of growth does not even keep up with inflation, as well as by unexpectedly proposing to cut U.S. troop strength in Western Europe far deeper than he had proposed last May.
Indeed, the historic and rapidly unfolding reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have sent defense planners back to the drawing boards to recraft the nation's long-range national security needs accordingly. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has even suggested th...
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...foreign aid.
Increasingly, say congressional insiders, the Democrats are coming around to Bush's thinking on at least one point in his State of the Union address - that $1.2 trillion is still considered a lot of money. "There's a growing feeling that $1.2 trillion is enough," Stenholm said after a strategy session of House Democrats. "We just need to show that we can spend it better."
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