BASE CLOSINGS, ROUND 4.

Focuses on the military base closings in the U.S. View that the Pentagon says that this so-called final round of closings will affect 146 installations and will save $18 billion over the next 20 years; Information on one of the problems with this whole procedure is that, until recently, the only member who had been named and confirmed was the commission chairman, former Senator Alan Dixon; Fact that the Pentagon and the services do try to recommend base closings based upon cumulative economic impact, which is supposed to take into account how hard states have been lilt by previous closures.