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S«. I lWiday, July 10, 196? St, J
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Congress
Eyes Cost
Even Greater Cutback Of
U.S. Troops Is Called For
Battles Rage In D.C. Over
President’s ABM Program
nbles
BLES will begin
Sunday at Goose
y Club. Players
in the pro shop
unday. There will
tart.
For Apollo 11
CAPE KENNEDY, Flu. (AP)
Of Sickness
- The lengthy countdown be-
gins tonight for Apollo It’s Jour-
ney to the moon.
At 7 p.m. CDT, the launch
toam will feed electrical power
to the giant Saturn 5 rocket,
starting the countdown clock
ticking toward a liftoff at 8:32
a.m. next Wednesday.
As crews completed systems
checks on the 36-story-tall rock-
et-spaceship combination today,
astronauts Neil A. Armstrong,
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Mi-
chael Collins planned a day-long
workout in . the command ship
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen-
ate Democratic leaders have
quietly approved a ckU lor a far
cfll. "The only thing to do is Civilian payroll ci
accelerate, it." to be general, includ
He said the United States is cent reduction In ,
maintaining 2,706 bases, 400 of nam.
them major installations, cover- But the military '
lng 4,000 square miles in 30 for- appiy to forces Jr
eign nations. ' south Korea, Berlb
All told, he said, some 1.75 areas of Southeast
million troops, dependents and ujg. forces support i
employes are based overseas. erations, or to mani
Mansfield said it would repre- mutee to the Non
sent real progress if those fig- Treaty Organization,
urea were cut In half. Presumably, this
The White House announced ductions In U.S. fore
14,900 men will be brought baejt Japan and Turkey.
ucation
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Re
publican Sen. Charts Percy
says it is "pure hogwash” to
should be taken in defense and
disarmement.
Laird in his testimony re-em-
phasized the arguments for
Safeguard and rejected a
suggestion that the United
States unilaterally suspend de-
velopment of multiheaded mis-
siles. / ‘V
Under vigorous questioning by
Committee Chairman J. W. Fid-
bright, D-Ark., Laird narrowed
his earlier contention that the
Russians wereaiming for a dev-
astating first-strike nuclear ca-
for Impending disarmament
bilks with the Soviet Union.
"Has the senator noted a shift
of strategy and logic today?”
Gore asked Percy. * , *
caid programs without exten- greater cutback in U. S. troop
sive government intervention In strength. In Europe 4Mui now
fees charged made by physi- planned by the White House.
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mahsfield described as in-
adequate President Nixon's or-
der to withdraw some 15,000
military men from overseas
bases during the next year.
The White House did not dis-
close the specific areas in-
volved, but the order announced
Wednesday exempted Vietnam
and other spots of trouble and
tension.
"This is a step in the right di-
rection, but it's only a. drop luj
.....Mansfield said In
BE openings for
eel driver train-
2510 Aug. 15 ses-
ler Information,
Lee High School
argue that the Safeguard mis-
sile defense system is needed to ;
-fiassL-* spai
said "I think it is a great phe- *• «%?• *.
nomenon, two great countries, - The committed in opening a
the United SUtes and Russia, mvesUga ion of costs
are unable to stop the expend!- *"d abuses •" tw° bl« “
4ure of funds that in thtr country ^ expenses ^
totals $80 billion—this country, " ” " “
richest in the world, threatened
with a form of bankruptcy.
strengthen President Nixbn’s
hand for U.S.-Soviet disarma-
ment talks.
And Democratic Sen. Albert
Gore says such an argument put
forth on behalf of the antiballis-
tic missile program—ABM—in
openingdebatebyfettow Demo- position,” said Stennis, chair-
crats John C. Stennis of Missis- man of the Arrtied Services
sippi and Henry M. Jackson of Committee who opened the de-
Wqshingtop cewesenta “a shift bata Tuesday by saying the
of strategy” by the pronSafe- need to stand behind Nixon was
Up jumped Jackson and Sten-
simulator, practicing the engine
maneuver that shoots them out
of earth orbit and sets them on
a quarter-million-mile course to
the moon. . ....
• They are to orbit the moon
July 19, and the next day Arm-
strong and Aldrin are to fly a
fragile lunar module (LM) to
man’s first landing on the lunar
surface. ^ —
to the United States'during die
next year "in the interests , of
lessening budget and balance of
payments costs and of reducing
The kind of cutbacks Mans-
field wants would have to come
in the NATO area, exempt from
the Nixon order. ...
pability.
The United SUtes has 228,000
men in West Germany alone.
Mansfield said (fie Germans
are in far better economic
shape than the United SUtes to
provide forces for their defense.
the bucket,
R-Ky., and Sen. Philip A. Hart,
D-Mich., introduced their
amendment to the 820 billion
military procurement bill,
which includes 8759.1 million for
reUliatory U.S. Minuteman
:w. ' .__ I This, plus a reduction of some
learned the Senate 5,100 civilian employes abroad,
c Policy Committee could lead to eventual balance
is agreed to back a 0f payments savings of 875 mil-
urging the adminls- lion, the White House said.
guard forces.
It was evident from testimony It
that soaring costs were posing a Den:
far bigger problem for the pro- alrei
Fulbright insisted there was ABM. The amendment prohiblU
disagreement in the U.S. intelll- deployment or site acquisition “ ““ “““
gence community over Russian for Safeguard, but would pro-
capabilities and intentions, vide for continued research, de-
Laird replied there was none so velopment, testing and evalua-
far as capabilities were con- tion of the antimissile system,
cened. The Senate again put off in-
Durihg the Senate ABM tie- definitely arr expected secret
at which Stennis
Gore teamed with Percy to
"I have not changed my posi-
tion,” Jackson said. “I believe
there is a clear need to protect
the deterrent. I also believe it is
important1 the Resident not
have the rug pulled from under
him at negotiations.”
While the ABM debate picked
up steam, Laird’s testimony be-
fore the Senate Foreign Rela-
needle Stennis and Jackson as
tye ABM debate in the Senate
heated up Wednesday.
Gore noted President Nixon
and Defense SecreUry Melvin
t'l T»]
Open Daily io:oo to 1:00
Open Thurtday and Friday Until 8:80
R. Laird had based their argu-
ment for ABM on the need to
protect the nation's missile de-
terrent force. The Tennessee |
Democrat suggested ABM sup- i
vance the resolution WQuW hsye
their formal endorsement.
“The trend is fine,!' Mansfield
porters were departing from closed door hearing was made
that course when they contend- public-providing An additional
ed Safeguard should be ap- illustration of the wide split in
preved-to boister the • President] aslrliigtun over what" course
session „
planned to outline classified de-
which finance the programs.
up his attack on the administra-
tion military policy.
said after the announcement of
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 252, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1969, newspaper, July 10, 1969; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1055367/m1/3/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.