There Will Be Closings

Governors and mayors across the country are lining up political firepower to keep their military bases--and the jobs and income they generate--off the Bush Administration's hit list.

Although 97 major bases have been shut in the four most recent rounds of closings, from 1988 to 1995, that still leaves 425 active sites--perhaps 25% too many, in the view of the latest and leaner-minded Defense Department boss Donald Rumsfeld. More here.