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...stood before the House of Commons last week, Defense Minister Harold Watkinson wore the pained expression of a man treading on nettles. "In the light of our military advice," intoned Watkinson, "we have concluded . . . that we ought not to continue to develop, as a military weapon, a missile that can be launched only from a fixed site." After six years of work and an expenditure of $280 million, Britain was scrapping its most ambitious military rocket, the 2,500-mile Blue Streak IRBM. The big rocket might be salvaged as a satellite launcher in the space sweepstakes, said Watkinson...
Moving Missiles. Most noteworthy of the budget increases is in Britain, where new Defense Minister Harold Watkinson, a hard-hitting businessman, last week proposed to increase defense spending by $300 million, to nearly $4.6 billion. Wat-kinson's program had good news for NATO: Britain has abandoned "for the time being" its plans to cut back British air and ground units in West Germany...
...Watkinson is also moving away from a 1958 British decision that would have hitched Britain's long-range nuclear-weapons planning exclusively to the fixed-site Blue Streak missile. Instead, the British are considering greater reliance on missiles that can be launched from submarines or planes-specifically the U.S. Navy's Polaris or the U.S. Air Force's Sky Bolt...
...midst of a routine question-and-answer period in the House of Commons one day last, week, Transport Minister Harold Watkinson made a humiliating announcement: to keep the British Overseas Airways Corp. competitive with U.S. and other foreign airlines, Her Majesty's government had agreed to let the state-owned airline order 15 U.S.-made Boeing 707 jet airliners for $98 million...
There are few such signs. Minister Watkinson said that BOAC is "urgently discussing" a long-range jetliner with Britain's own de Havilland. But so far de Havilland's plane is only a blueprint; between planning and production there is many a slip, as the British are painfully aware. (Watkinson also tried to soothe British egos by stating that BOAC's U.S. jets will use homemade Rolls-Royce engines installed in the Boeing air frames, thus save $25 million in dollars...