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Show fern appnuoe wsonm eji Mm spooisg, till bomber will come on line about the time the B 2's belatedly are put in mothballs. The Reagan Administration's Administra-tion's new defense spending proposals represent a vital commitment to national security se-curity based on the principle princi-ple of peace through strength, said Senator Jake Garn. He made his comments after reviewing the Administration's Admin-istration's fiscal year 1981 and 1982 defense budget figures, which were outlined by Secretary of Defense Caspar Cas-par Weinberger. The Reagan Administration Administra-tion stated its goals clearly in asking for $178 billion in spending authority for Fiscal Year 1981 and $222.2 billion In Fiscal Year 1982. Under Reagan, we will begin be-gin a massive effort to achieve ach-ieve strategic equality, naval superiority and a stronger NATO alliance, and rapidly deployable armed forces. The overall objective is world peace which can only be assured by maintaining main-taining a strong military which will deter any potential poten-tial aggressor from attacking at-tacking us or our allies. History shows that wars begin be-gin when one side believes it is sufficiently strong to win. There Is no question that the Soviets are engaging In the most massive arms build up In history, and prudent people must wonder what they have In mind. Their preparations have gone far beyond what is needed for their own defense, and we just begin an urgent pro- gram to counteract the potentially po-tentially dangerous imbalance imbal-ance which is developing. The defense budget proposals pro-posals are part of a broad based strategy to revitalize revital-ize America restoring health and vigor to our domestic do-mestic economy while rearming our military forces. Defense will receive re-ceive a higher spending priority pri-ority in the years ahead, but that's precisely the direction mandated by the American people In the last election. The Administraton is not throwing money at the defense de-fense problems as some critics cri-tics have charged. Secretary Weinberger for example, has identified internal savings of $5.5 billion over the next two years, and I am sure this type of responsible fiscal fis-cal control will continue. The increase in defense outlays over the Carter Administration Ad-ministration projections will be $5.8 billion. The $32.6 billion increase in defense spending obligations will demonstrate our long term commitment to rebuild our forces. The Administration has charted a wise course In continuing con-tinuing development of the MX missile while looking at various ways of basing it. I commend the Secretary and President for their willingness willing-ness to examine MX from the bottom up and I have been reassured the review process pro-cess will not delay deployment deploy-ment of MX once the basing question has been resolved. President Carter made a critical mistake in cancelling cancel-ling production of the B-l bomber, forcing us to rely on the agin B-52 fleet. The manned bomber is an indispensable indis-pensable element of our strategic Triad and a new |