Perry rules out Star Wars revival with robust sea and ground defenses
Defense Secretary William Perry dismissed GOP demands for a continental missile defense system. He pledged a robust budget for sea based and ground based defenses, while noting no current threat justifies a large deployment. He defended Haiti engagement as cost effective and unlikely turnover to UN peacekeepers before early 1995.
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Poll on Welfare Perceptions Shows Support for Programs
A Washington AP report notes Americans overestimate welfare payments and favor higher poverty thresholds. The Independent Center survey for America’s War On Poverty finds 84 percent see a moral duty to help the poor and 80 percent want government action, with many supporting job programs over welfare cuts.
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Seventy three percent say $4.25 should rise, proposing $5.41. Eighty one percent believe most poor live in cities, though census shows 40 percent in urban areas. Sixty four percent feel poverty worsens, while seven percent see improvement.
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