The Nation - News from June 26, 1988
- Share via
House and Senate negotiators voted to halt five years of growth for the Pentagon’s Strategic Defense Initiative last week by holding its budget increase for next year to 3% and demanding that much of the funds go to long-term research instead of near-term weapons development, congressional officials told the Washington Post. The resulting $3.73-billion authorization for fiscal 1989 would fall considerably short of the $4.5 billion proposed in February by Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci. Included in recent congressional action is a cut in the Administration’s effort to develop space-based rockets to shoot down Soviet nuclear missiles as part of the initial phase of missile defense deployments.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
