WASHINGTON INSIGHT

UP PERISCOPE! General Dynamics Corp. is pulling out all stops in its campaign to save the $2 billion-a-copy Seawolf submarine. . . . It has hired the high-powered Washington PR firm Powell Tate and is relentlessly lobbying to keep the sub program alive. It brought executives from GD’s Electric Boat Division, which builds the sub, to Washington for interviews and then trotted out former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Carlisle A. H. Trost. . . . The emphasis is on jobs--60,000 of them in 37 states--and the need to preserve military manufacturing. Responds Defense Secretary Dick Cheney: “Cutting the defense budget means cutting the defense budget.”