Titan IV Failure
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Ken Starr spends $40 million looking into the president’s dark side and the public is treated to countless editorials on how the money could be better spent on family planning clinics and Head Start. It’s good to know that the media are watching out for our best interests by counting the pennies; or does it just look that way?
On April 30 the Air Force suffered its third Titan IV failure in a row at a total cost estimated to exceed $3 billion; what’s funny is that you had to look on Page 8 to find the two-inch story. That’s enough for Starr to have investigated every president from George Washington onward. Maybe we need an independent counsel to look into the rocket scientists and to ask why the media would want to minimize this story.
JOE REUTER
Burbank
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