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New England bases face closure rumors and job losses
Amid dismay over possible Pentagon base closings in New England Westover AFB Chicopee Otis AFB Boston Naval Shipyard Quonset Point NAS and Davisville Seabee base are cited as at risk. Politicians push for review while officials warn of a multibillion dollar regional economic impact and thousands of lost jobs.
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New England
Westover Air Force Base
Chicopee
Mass
Defense
Elliot L. Richardson
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Thomas P. O'Neill
D-Mass
Silvio O. Conte
Rmass
Edward P. Boland
Richardson
Westover
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
John O. Pastore
D-R.i
Pell
Pentagon
House
Senate
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of Labor
Conte
Boland
Chicopee-Holyoke
Springfield
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
Boston Naval Shipyard
Chelsea Naval Hospital
Quonset Point Naval Air Station
Davisville
O'Neill
Kenneth T. Lyons
National Association of Government Employes
Lyons
Thomas O'Neill
Westover Afb
Otis Afb
Seabee
R. I
Edward Kennedy
Boston
Kevin H. White
Muskie
Maine
Loring Air Force
Bruns
Hewick Naval Air Station
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Out
Kittery
Portsmouth
N.H
New Defense Department
Hampshire