Word: congressmen
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AMESBURY,--Congressmen opposed to the opening of the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant yesterday warned Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials they would face fierce resistance if they favored a plan to ease emergency evacuation safeguards...
Only, it seems, Northrop Chairman Thomas Jones, a handful of Congressmen from California, where Northrop is based, and some of Jones' influential friends in the Administration. Congress forced a yearlong simulated "fly- off" between the Falcon and Northrop's adequate but unexceptional F-20 Tigershark, which other nations have refused to buy. Last week the Air Force announced the unsurprising winner of the competition for the contract: a modified General Dynamics...
...another competitive fly-off has been inflicted on the Air Force, this time mainly by New York Congressmen and Senators. After lengthy study, the Air Force had decided it did not want to buy a new T-46A trainer, designed by Fairchild Republic at its development plant on New York's Long Island. The Air Force argued that it could save $2 billion by upgrading its current T-37 trainer, built by Cessna in Kansas, rather than buying 650 of the newer planes...
...broke down before firing 5,000 rounds, while another cracked at 7,000. By contrast, the Beretta triggered 8,800 rounds without a mishap. After the Army signed a contract for 300,000 Berettas, which would be produced at the company's Accokeek, Md., plant for $75 million, Massachusetts Congressmen, including Democrat Edward Boland and Republican Silvio Conte, sought to reopen bids for a second batch of pistols, this time for 206,000. Congress compromised, forcing the Army to test the Smith & Wesson yet again...
Local politicians at the Kennedy victory party last night said Kennedy would be able to serve his district better than most freshmen Congressmen because the family name carries a lot of weight in the nation's capital...