P.M. BRIEFING : Cheney Stands Firm on Halting V-22
Despite strong congressional lobbying, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is remaining firm in his decision to halt the Marine Corps’ V-22 Osprey aircraft program, a congressional aide said today.
A Pennsylvania delegation of Republican Sens. Arlen Specter and John Heinz and Republican Rep. Curt Weldon and Democratic Rep. Thomas M. Foglietta met with Cheney at the Pentagon on Tuesday to lobby for the V-22--apparently to no avail.
Cheney announced in April his plans to cancel the V-22--a new tilt-rotor aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies like a plane--as part of $10 billion in budget cuts for fiscal 1990 that begins Oct. 1.
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