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For the future, General Dynamics is in line for a pair of plums: likely to become $1 billion projects are the jobs of refitting Polaris subs to handle the advanced Poseidon missile and building a new Navy Standard Missile to supplement two of its earlier products, the Tartar and the...
>Andrei Antonovich Grechko, 63, Russia's First Deputy Defense Minister, was promoted to Defense Minister to replace Rodion Malinovsky, who died last month of cancer. His appointment abruptly ended speculation that the Kremlin, over army objections, was about to turn the defense ministry over to a civilian. Like Malinovsky...
De Gaulle himself was too busy to attend the ceremony. He had journeyed to Cherbourg, where, with imperial pride, he launched France's first nuclear-powered submarine, the 5,200-ton Le Redoubtable. Built at a cost of $143 million, the submarine will eventually be fitted with French-built...
With the exception of the French workers, they have all moved out. Left behind is some $750 million worth of military infrastructure, which constitutes a windfall for France. It includes such unmovable assets as 46 new air fields, 17 Polaris depots, 1,200 miles of pipeline, 13 air navigational aid...
Nonetheless, a note of optimism permeated the conference. "There are many signs that we are at a favorable turning point," the President said at the outset. That theme was elaborated in detail as U.S. and South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea...