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Defense: Increase spending by $1.4 billion, to a total $42.9 billion. While much of the increase reflects simple inflation, it also provides some millions more for Polaris submarines, solid-fuel Minuteman ICBMs, B70 supersonic bombers, as well as more airlift capacity, modernization of Army equipment, and the capability, if necessary, to mount a round-the-clock airborne alert...
Quick Lift. After losing the battle for Vientiane, Kong Le led the remnants of his battalion north to the jungle town of Vang Vieng. The Russians began an airlift from Hanoi to drop him supplies, and he picked up reinforcements from the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas, who roam freely through back-country Laos...
...home from school by members of a housewives' volunteer committee. "We're gathering the people who want to send their children to school but need help," explained one of the volunteers. "We're going to help them. We might have to run a kind of Berlin airlift during the next week or two." The slowly growing number of white pupils at Frantz was still another evidence that the power of the mob was ebbing. In New Orleans, Jim Crow education was dying hard-but did seem to be dying surely...
...Military airlift: $194 million (total: $550 million). ¶Atlas missiles: $131 million...
...constructive thought since 1918." Noting wryly in passing that he had "learned a good deal about the Legion, especially since 1949," Legionnaire Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country's conventional armed forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto of any future admission of Red China to the United Nations and an economic "quarantine...