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...doctrine, McNamara will catch most of the blame for drastic cuts he has ordered in existing programs. Among them: curtailment of the liquid-fueled, obsolescent Titan ICBM and "low reliability" Snark missiles and a virtual end to the development of the Air Force's cherished Mach 3 bomber of the future, North American's B-70, as well as the perennially experimental nuclear airplane. These slashes are sure to bring cries of anguish from pressure groups (both in and out of the Pentagon) and contractors, but none will be so loud or perhaps so damaging to the Administration...
Thin Luck. One converted World War II bomber was busy hauling supplies- cement, rice and nails-for a village self-help program that the U.S. hoped would win some friends. Old C-475 ferried arms, food, cigarettes and beer that floated down by orange and white parachutes wherever a royal army contingent could be spotted through the clouds. Luck ran out for one U.S. embassy C-47 on an observation mission, which ran into a hail of ground fire and crashed. The U.S. gave seven crew members up for dead, the first U.S. casualties of the Laotian war. The only...
...dozens of subcontractors and suppliers to stop work on orders totaling millions of dollars, estimated it may have to lay off hundreds of employees. Pratt & Whitney expects to lay off about 800. Convair would also be hurt by the elimination of additional funds for its 6-58 Hustler bomber and by Kennedy's decision to cut back the B70 jet bomber program. If all the cuts go through, and if Convair gets no other contracts, its 18,000-man work force at its Fort Worth plant would have to be deeply slashed...
Kennedy called for a sizable cut ($138 million) in Eisenhower's $354 million request for the 6-70 program, the Air Force's Mach 3 bomber of the future, and hacked $50 million more from nuclear airplane development. Unexpected was the severe hatcheting of military installations: the Pentagon hopes to close down no fewer than 73 posts both in the U.S. and overseas, plans to reassign the 24,000 civilians who work at them...
...Arabia, and promised that, before leaving, the U.S. would finish the air terminal it has been building for the Arabians at a cost so far of $5,000,000. In fact, the U.S. is rapidly running out of airbases in the Arab world. After the three Strategic Air Command bomber bases in Morocco close, as agreed, in 1963, the U.S.'s only remaining base in the Arab world will be the $100 million installation at Wheelus Field, Libya...