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...needed to give another vote-pulling Nixon campaign promise some hope of fulfillment: ending the draft by creating an all-volunteer military force. It is also dictated by Nixon's insistence on improving existing nuclear weapons and building such new systems as the Trident submarine and the B-1 bomber...
...estimate that peace would bring a savings of $5.8 billion annually. But Pentagon leaders insist that all of this sum?and more?will be needed for other military purposes. For one thing. President Nixon has ordered up several new strategic-weapons systems, including North American Rockwell's B-1 bomber and Lockheed's Poseidon missile. Nixon expects defense costs to rise from $76.5 billion in this fiscal year to $83 billion by fiscal...
...self-determination of the Vietnamese people. Nixon's defenders recite isolated incidents of terrorism by the National Liberation Front but overlook the greater terrorism of ARVN troops and the infinitely more monstrous terror of indiscriminate American bombing. Bolstering an arrogant puppet regime against an uncontainable revolution. American bomber pilots are incinerating a land, a people and a culture...
KANSAS CITY BOMBER...
...theft of Oreo cookies, and how Hughes reluctantly went swimming in the nude with-of course-Ernest Hemingway. The imaginary Hughes had originally barged in on Hemingway in Sun Valley, introduced himself as a bush pilot and taken the novelist "for a spin" in his B-25 bomber. Later, "fed up with everything," he went to see Hemingway in Cuba but confessed his identity. "And, well, his attitude changed, and he began to talk about money...I didn't want Ernest pumping me about money...