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MINIMUM INCOME. McGovern's basic idea is to replace the present inefficient, bureaucratic welfare programs with direct federal "grants" for everyone, from billionaires to newborn ghetto babies. Actually, millions of people would never see the money; the grants would be only phantom figures on their tax statements. At first, the Senator set the grants at $1,000 per person per year, but only the very poor would get that much. The grants would be taxed, and taxpayers would lose their present $750 personal exemptions, with the result that most people would have at least part of their...
...inherent simplicity. No longer will pilots have to zigzag their way along radio beams from one VOR station to another until they finally reach their destination. Instead, the R-Nav computer will enable them to use the signals from existing stations to set up their own straight-line "phantom" path with waystations that will guide them directly from one airport to another. (Ground controllers will still have to approve the route and monitor the flight to avoid conflict with other planes.) Furthermore, R-Nav will relieve bottlenecks near airports. Aircraft will be able to approach the landing runway from...
...North Vietnamese civilian casualties, by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate, were running as high as 1,000 a week. In the days following Nixon's TV address, the U.S. lost three planes and four crewmen. Ten MIGs were brought down by U.S. jets. One U.S. Navy Phantom destroyed three of the MIGs in a fierce dogfight over Haiphong before it, too, was knocked out of the sky. The Phantom's flyers, Lieut. Randy Cunningham and Lieut, (j.g.) William Driscoll, who were subsequently rescued, thereby became the first American air aces of the Viet Nam War, since...
...troopships leave, coolly ignored Nixon's warnings and attacked more massively than ever. The Nixonian rhetoric seems to reveal a misplaced fear that the American psyche cannot handle any tinge of "defeat" or abandonment of professed "principle" in Viet Nam. The President appears to be fighting the phantom of a mythical constituency on the American political right, a spectre perhaps shaped by his own past and never severely examined...
When a flight of four Phantoms lands on the twin 10,000-ft. runways, the planes quickly taxi to rows of protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take...