Denial urged for $1 billion nuclear aircraft carrier
Senator Mondale urged cancellation of a 299 million dollar request to begin CVAN-76 arguing the Navy cannot justify the cost for a ship deemed the most expensive in history. He warned that even with another carrier the fleet would be oversized and obsolete by the mid 1980s while noting the Russians lack such attack carriers.
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GAO finds F14 fighter costly and inferior in some aspects
A GAO study, cited by Senator Proxmire, says the Navy F14 is inferior in some areas to the existing F4, costing about 16 million per plane versus 4 million for the newer model. The report highlights design delays, unreported systems costs, and underfunded estimates, urging buying only the F4s now and suspending the new lightweight program until better options arise.
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UPI
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D-Wis
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Dental group backs bill to aid poor children
The American Dental Association president urged passage of the Children’s Dental Health Act providing federal funds for pilot programs of dental care for needy children. The bill, now in the House after Senate approval, would fund care for poverty affected youngsters and support water fluoridation and training for dental staff.
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UPI
American Dental Association
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Clarksburg
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Senate
Children's Dental Health Act
ADA
California Dental Association
Hoffa alleges narcotics easy to obtain in prison
Former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, paroled from Lewisburg, says narcotics are easily obtainable in prison and used to control inmates. He describes conditions, headlining drug availability, inadequate medical care, and callous guards, and criticizes mixed prisoner housing before testifying on prison reform.
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Local control safe in U S school program
Secretary Richardson told National School Boards that federal share in education to local areas will grow but local control remains. He cited Nixon’s education revenue sharing as necessary for reform, replacing existing federal formula grants with a single distribution to states for education for the disadvantaged, the disabled, vocational education, federally impacted areas, and materials and services.
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UPT
Eliot Richardson
Health, Education and Welfare
Richardson
Washington
Nixon
Office of Education
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