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MARCH 1970: Nobuo Okuchi, Japanese consul general in Sāo Paulo, was kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attaché Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger...
...Cambodian army liaison. Though he maintains that the Cambodians' plans are "surprisingly sophisticated," he admits that "if I think their priorities are dumb, I tell them." He is awaiting delivery of a helicopter that will enable aid officials to observe the Cambodian army in action, and the military attachés at the embassy have just acquired a C-47 for a similar purpose...
...their own causes, they attach great importance to how it is shown. The day after the Kent State shootings, a crowd of 20,000 young people gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to protest. As Republican Governor Francis Sargent looked down, the crowd chanted: "Lower the flag! Lower the flag!" Sargent did so. The encounter was an indirect affirmation by youth of the country's most enduring symbol; the lowering of the flag to half-staff seemed to them a proper and necessary tribute to their fellow students who had fallen...
...Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...
...Ernest Fitzgerald, a civilian cost analyst for the Air Force, was fired after testifying to the $2 billion C-5A cost overrun. Fitzgerald reported that an Air Force officer who raised questions about the cost of C-5A "was found to have unique qualifications to be the air attaché in Addis Ababa." Had the Air Force stopped C-5A production after the first run of 58 planes, Lockheed Aircraft, the prime contractor, would have taken a substantial loss. But a year after the cost mess had been made public, the Pentagon went on to order a full 115, only...