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House’s Fiscal 1992-93 V-22 Plan Shows Long-term Funding Challenge
WASHINGTON House support for a two-year $1.75-billion initiative to manufacture six V-22 ti1t-rotor aircraft shows how hard it would be to finance a 657-aircraft production program for the U. S. Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy. Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney’s 1989 judgment that the Pentagon cannot afford the V-22, however valuable it would be, remains under challenge.
By DAVID F. BOND4 min