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...Office, repairs will begin at once. Roberts, who worked with several university officials to get rehabilitation started, said that the Vappi Constructon Company would submit an estimate of repair costs to him this morning. "Just as soon as we can get the estimate approved, we'll give Vappi the go-ahead -- they'll start tomorrow or the next day," Roberts said. He estimated that final repairs will be completed in about six weeks...
...time in the foreseeable future. Later, noting gravely that Gemini would pass 16 times over North Viet Nam, 40 times over Red China, eleven times over Cuba, the Soviet Defense Ministry newspaper Red Star fumed that the spacemen were "spying." Against this backdrop, President Johnson last week gave the go-ahead for a major military effort in space, announced plans for the Air Force's $1.5 billion Manned Orbiting Laboratory (see following story...
...morning. As he must know, however, it was on Thursday evening that Police Chief Parker told the California National Guard that the rioting might call for military intervention. In any case, the Guard was not actually called out until 5 p.m. Friday, after vacationing Governor Brown had given the go-ahead from Greece...
Schlesinger and Sorensen stress the fact that early in 1960 President Eisenhower gave a go-ahead to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to train, supply and support anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Guatemala. It went without saying that those exiles would eventually strike at Cuba and try to overthrow Castro. Ike crossed no t's and dotted no i's as to the specifics of the plan. In Sorensen's words, Kennedy "inherited the plan, the planners and, most troubling of all, the Cuban exile brigade-an armed force, flying another flag, highly trained in secret Guatemalan...
...Airborne Warning Control System (AWACS), using high-flying radar planes to detect low-flying bombers that try to sneak in under regular radar; 3) the Army's Nike-X system (TIME, June 18), designed to destroy enemy missiles. So far, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has not given a go-ahead on any of the three...