The Nation - News from March 15, 1989

The House Armed Services Committee voted to support an independent commission’s proposal to close, reduce operations or change the mission at 145 military facilities. Lawmakers opposed to the recommendations are expected to exercise their right to force a full House vote. The vote was 43 to 4. States hit hardest by the panel’s recommendations are California, which would lose five major installations including the Presidio Army base in San Francisco, and Illinois, which would lose two. Both houses must disapprove the entire list of recommendations to stop them. The commission last Dec. 29 proposed closing 86 facilities, partially closing five others and changing the mission in 54 other installations.