Senate amends Star Wars plan in funding battle
Senate moved to slow the Brilliant Pebbles space defense plan and finish the 1991 defense bill at about 283 billion. The chamber kept a 3.7 billion SDI total, reduced the Pebbles request to 129 million, and warned of a possible presidential veto while criticizing Pentagon budgeting and system confusion.
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Drugs blamed for rise in nation wide homicides
The FBI reports 21,500 homicides in 1989, with Washington DC at 434 killings. Experts credit drug trafficking for the decade’s violence while noting Atlanta, Detroit, and DC top crime figures and a 3.6 percent national rise from 1988.
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