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ONCE again the Congress faced a question of national priorities. Much of U.S. labor and all of the aerospace industry had rallied behind the supersonic transport aircraft as a symbol of technological supremacy. In one of those massive lobbying campaigns that had proved so effective in the past, the professional persuaders argued that U.S. prestige, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in profits were at stake in the continued development of the plane. The pressure, economic and nationalistic, seemed irresistible. But last week the House of Representatives, which had staunchly supported the SST through ten years of controversy, stunningly...
...fate of the SST is still in doubt. If the Senate votes to continue funds, some kind of compromise-now wholly unpredictable-would have to be worked out with the House. If the Senate continues its opposition, the Government would seem to be out of the supersonic-transport business, at least for a time. Then it would be up to the aerospace industry to show whether it really believes enough in the aircraft's future to gamble more of its own money on it-and to persuade private financial institutions to gamble as well...
PROPOSALS for Government funding of an American supersonic transport date back ten years-the same amount of time Senator William Proxmire has spent opposing it. From 1961 to 1969, Proxmire engaged in five losing campaigns against SST appropriations. He has filibustered and conducted hearings, hammering away in a personal crusade against the "perfectly trivial purpose of developing an SST, seeing how rapidly we can already fly people overseas." It was the kind of tenacity that has made Proxmire the bane of defense contractors, pork-barreling colleagues and consumer frauds...
...Senate voted yesterday, 51 to 46, to stop Federal funding of the supersonic transport (SST), despite administration, labor, and industry pressure for continued appropriations...
North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces stepped up the war in northern Laos, rocketing the ancient royal capital of Luang Prabang and assaulting four other nearby government positions. About 120 Americans, mostly women and children, fled Luang Prabang aboard American transport planesSunday. The city is reported to be almost completely surrounded by Pathet Lao forces...