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...SALT I controversy is complex and multifaceted. One complaint, mainly from liberals, is that while Nixon is hailing SALT, his Defense Secretary is pounding the corridors of Congress in search of $1.3 billion to pursue development work on costly new weapons systems, including the B-l bomber and the Trident missile submarine...
...very clear that he intended to go forward" with a Soviet weapons program. Congress was not of a mind to get in the President's way. The House overwhelmingly voted a $21.3 billion military-appropriations bill that included funds for work on the B-l and the Trident. At week's end the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a similar bill...
...Storm clouds hung low over London's Heathrow Airport when the "Eurocrat Special," a British European Airways Trident jet with 118 people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...
...BETSY by Harold Robbins. 502 pages. Trident Press...
...tale be true? The Soviets know the identites of the nine bodies found at the Trident crash site, but they will say only that the victims were in uniform, that one was a woman and that there were signs of an armed struggle in the aircraft, suggesting a hijack attempt. Experts tend to believe the fantastic story of Lin's flight, though they concede that the account of the assassination attempts might have been fabricated to make it less embarrassing for Mao to purge the man whom he had personally designated his "closest comrade in arms and successor." After...