Word: mid-1970s
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...announced that it will gradually rid itself of the most burdensome vestige of its venerable but faded oriental empire. In a long-expected move, the government issued a Defense Ministry White Paper calling for withdrawal of all 80,000 British troops and civilians from Singapore and Malaysia by the mid-1970s...
...there is no change in its plan to establish "staging bases" with the U.S. on tiny atolls such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. It is, however, giving up much of its remaining naval striking power; it plans to retire its four remaining aircraft carriers by the mid-1970s...
...bombers in which to carry their H-bombs. But they test-fired an intermediate-range (1,000 miles) missile last October. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has warned that the Chinese will have effective IRBMs in limited numbers by 1969, and ICBMs capable of reaching the continental U.S. by the mid-1970s. Last week's H-blast was certain to step up clamor in Congress for an immediate start on the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile net. It may also prompt India and other nations to decide to build their own nuclear weapons...
...large segments of the skies clear of threatening ICBMs, defense planners believe a relatively small number of Spartan missile batteries-costing a total of $4 billion-could defend the entire continental U.S. against the kind of primitive missile attack that China may well be able to launch by the mid-1970s. They could also provide protection against a few Soviet ICBMs that might be launched accidentally...
...that the cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...