Cohen sees 'hard climb' ahead for modernization

The Defense Dept. faces a "very hard climb" to reach its $60 billion modernization target by 2001, Defense Secretary William Cohen said yesterday as he officially unveiled the Pentagon's $250.7 billion fiscal 1998 budget request. "There's nothing magical about that figure, $60 billion," Cohen told...

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