F15 chosen to lead US air superiority fighter program
The Air Force named McDonnell Douglas to develop the F15 jet fighter. An initial 1.1 billion covers 20 test aircraft with further production for a 107 unit wing. total program cost could reach 6 billion for up to 600 planes. The winner unseated eight bidders after a 15 month process.
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Washington
Air Force
McDonnell Douglas Corp
St. Louis
Congress
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Soviet Theses Stress Restraint in Foreign Policy
The Soviet Communist party issued a 1300 word restatement called the party theses, updating the Kremlin line on China Czechoslovakia the capitalist West and domestic matters. It stresses restraint in foreign policy and minimal direct criticism of the United States and West Germany while affirming peaceful coexistence with a clear line of ideological struggle.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Kremlin
China
Czechoslovakia
West
United States
West Germany
Foen
Vietnamese Sailors Begin Newport Training Program
Six South Vietnamese naval cadets will start a 20 week training course at Newport Naval Base on March 5. The program is part of a plan to accelerate Vietnamization of the war, announced by Rear Adm. J Nevin Shaffer, base commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, RI
Newport Naval Base School
Statehouse row over civil service reform and welfare plan
Massachusetts officials clash over Gov Sargents civil service reform appoint ment and a welfare plan aimed at flattening grants. Howard Doyle accuses the governor of political maneuvering to appease reform groups while pushing a higher pay goal for state workers and ending special needs grants for AFDC families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Francis W. Sargent
Civil Senate
Civil Service Commission
Howard V. Doyles
Massachusetts Public Employes Council
Sargent
Nancy B. Beecher
Concord
League of Women Voters
Doyle
AFDC
State Welfare Department
Hubert Jones
National Association of Social Workers
U S agrees to evacuate Wheelus Base by June 30
The United States and Libya's new revolutionary government agreed to withdraw all American forces and equipment from Wheelus air base by June 30, 1970. The pact, reached after talks in Washington and Tripoli, notes no current operational aircraft are based there and training will shift to ranges in Spain Italy Turkey and Britain until new facilities are arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Libya
Wheelus
Tripoli
Joseph Palmer
Abdul Salam Jarrad
Pentagon
Mediterranean
Spain
Italy
Turkey
Britain
France
Israel
State Department
Oil Firms Fined for Price Fixing in 1955 1965
Eight major oil companies were fined a total of 550000 in Federal District Court Newark for price and sales regulation of supplies to private brand distributors between 1955 and 1965. Fines ranged from 50000 to 150000 with no defenses offered. The indictment accused conspired monopolization of interstate gasoline trade in the Pennsylvnia New Jersey area and control over nonbrand distributor gasoline prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times News Service
Newark
N.J
American Oil Co
Federal District Court
Reynier J
Wortendyke Jr
City Service Oil
City Service Co
Mobil Oil
Atlantic Refining
Gulf Corp
Humble Oil Co
Sinclair Refining
Pennsylvania-New Jersey
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By William Beecher
New York Times News
McDonnell
Fairchild Hiller Corp
Germantown
North American Rockwell Corp
Los Angeles
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp
Bethpage
L. I
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division
United Aircraft Corp
Aircraft Engineering
General Electric Co
Robert C. Seamans Jr
Vietnam
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Jeep
The
Statehouse
Raytheon Co
Navy
RCA Electronics Products Division
RCA
State Tax Commission
Urban Redevelopment Corporation
Seth A. Armen
Northeastern University
College of Business Administration
Donald R. Dwight
Armen
Department of Public Works
Dwight
Francis Jy. Sargent
Charles E. Shepard
Highway Safety Funds
U.S
Wheels Base
General Electric
General Electric Company
Lenox School
Miss Hall's School
Berkshire Hillsmen
St. Joseph’s Glee Club
Dalton Jr. High School
Cranwell
Berkshire Life
Berkshire Life Insureance Company
Berkshire Life Singers
South Congregational Church
Berkshire Common
New Berkshire Common
WBEC
Famous Maker
Imanufacturer’s
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