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...Cabinet to consider. These, he indicated, could form the basis of a legislative program, although that will not come for at least a month or two. So far, Nixon's only official request of Congress has been for the confirmation of his appointees. However, the White House has withdrawn the still-unratified nominations of 485 appointees made in the final months of the Johnson Administration, and rescinded Nixon's predecessor's disputatious award of coveted transpacific routes to five airlines (see BUSINESS...
...July, Schultze foresees no substantial reduction in military expenditures until 1971. Ordnance and munitions lines run on after any cessation of hostilities to rebuild depleted inventories. In a war like the one in Viet Nam, substantial forces are likely to remain in the field for many months and be withdrawn gradually. Meanwhile, the country has made expensive commitments to advanced-weapons systems. Some items: the conversion of 31 Polaris submarines (cost: $248 million) to carry 496 Poseidon missiles at $80 million per vessel, the first six of which are to take place this year; the beginning of procurement for components...
...ability, in the event of a crisis, to airlift swiftly large numbers of U.S. troops to the NATO theater. The flown-in army units and F-4s are particularly suited to illustrate the point since they were permanently stationed in West Germany until last year. They were withdrawn at that time to the U.S. in order to reduce American military spending abroad, and thus help stem the outflow of U.S. gold reserves...
When asked if they felt academic credit should be withdrawn, forty-four per cent of the students said no but thirty-two per cent felt it should...
Only four per cent said they would withdraw from ROTC if academic credit were withdrawn. Twenty-eight per cent said they would not remain in the program if financial scholarships were no longer given...