Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Accordingly, the Defense Department refused to let GAO officials write down any figures from Lockheed's cash flow statement-which usually gives a broad picture of a company's finances-before reporting to Congress this month on $2 billion of cost overruns in producing the C-5A transport aircraft. Congress will have to decide later this year, partly on the basis of the GAO's report, whether to vote Lockheed more money to continue producing...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, publicly urged last week that Congress defeat the Nixon Administration's proposal for a supersonic transport, saying that the SST would be an "appallingly bad use of the taxpayers' money...
...NIXON Administration has repeatedly sought to identify the entire movement with its most extreme elements-"the violent people," President Nixon called them on Monday. The indictments against Philip Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to purchase and transport explosives over state lines for the purpose of blowing up heating tunnels in the capital fall into this pattern quite neatly. This does not seem like the behavior one would expect from priests and nuns whose dedication to non-violence is well-known. But the record shows that the government will try anything it thinks...
Officially, the Grand Jury in Tucson is investigating possible violations-by three "SDS-Weathermen"-of the antiriot act and of federal law pertaining to the purchase and interstate transport of explosives. It has already indicted one of the three, John Fuerst, for illegally purchasing 120 sticks of dynamite in Tucson last May and transporting them to California...
...roads and footpaths that carry nearly all Communist supplies into the South. The South Vietnamese have yet to cut any of the large, all-weather routes that run farther to the west; sidestepping the invasion, Communist traffic has largely moved to these roads. But even that inconvenience has slowed transport. "The stuff is backing up along the trail," says a Pentagon officer, and the flow will be choked off even more effectively if ARVN can advance to Muong Phine, a central transshipment point...