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Last year an intensive drive by citizen groups concerned about ecology and national priorities nearly doomed continued development of the U.S. supersonic transport aircraft. After the Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
...House of Representatives voted 218-204 yesterday to halt further federal funding of the Super-Sonic Transport plane (SST) as of March 30. However, SST supporters will call for another vote on the issue within the next week...
...guerrilla movements fighting the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola. He said that nine of 15 provinces in Angola are now controlled by the liberation forces, but that the recent American decision to sell two Boeing 707s to the Lisbon government (which Enteta claims the Portuguese will use to transport troops and material to their African colonies) indicates an American commitment to supporting the Caetano regime...
...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...