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— 00435/009 @4 PENTAGON & CACHE PAGE 18 Increasingly, the*Pentagon*is pushing previously unclassified programs: intc the black budget. About $4.5 billion in once-public#Fentagon*spending, such as funds for the Milstar space satellites designed to help fight nuclear wars, has vanished into the black budget in the past two years. ''Huge areas have been removed from public debate,'' said Jeffrey Richelson, a professor at American University in Washington who has written several acclaimed studies...