Word: offutt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After announcing that he expected an arms limitation agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be completed "within a few weeks," Carter toured Strategic Air Command headquarters at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base. He saw a command post from which would be launched the nuclear missiles he vowed again last week...
That afternoon Ford flew to Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, and within the fenced confines of the base he finally was able to do the crowd mingling he loves. After 15 relaxed minutes on safe Air Force soil, Ford was driven under heavy guard to a downtown hotel, where he attended a conference of business and civic leaders set up by the White House to discuss domestic and economic problems. In a television interview that evening, Ford broadly hint ed that he would favor renewing individual income tax cuts in 1976 if Congress would hold down spending (see ECONOMY...
...resisters. "This is the McGovern record," said an advertisement in the Roman Catholic archdiocesan newspaper in Omaha. The ad was placed by the Citizens Concerned for Preservation of Life. At the same time, McGovern's promise to cut the defense budget by $32 billion alarmed residents around the Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command...
High Tuition. The Nebraska case involves the town of Bellevue (pop. some 20,000), which has a student enrollment of 10,800, the majority of whom come from nearby Offutt Air Force Base, home of the Strategic Air Command. On the basis of last year's subsidy, Bellevue expected to get about $2,900,000 this year, or 45% of its school budget. The dispute between the Nixon Administration and Congress over the size of the entire education appropriation for the current fiscal year resulted in a compromise that left impacted-aid at roughly the same level as last...