Zumwalt warns U S lost edge on seas at conference
Retired Adm Elmo Zumwalt Jr warns that the United States has negotiated away naval superiority to the Soviet Union. He cites obsolete Navy weaponry since 1969 and urges renewed sea power to secure imports and national security. He also criticizes defense budget cuts, noting real dollars are lowest since 1950.
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Bakersfield
UPI
Elmo Zumwalt Jr
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Zumwalt
Kern County
Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
Russia spends more on arms than the United States
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger warned that Russia is outspending the United States on military power by at least 20 percent and could force a dramatic U.S. budget increase. He argued the growing gap risks upending the worldwide military balance and urged maintaining forces to sustain a global balance.
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New York
James Schlesinger
Russia
United States
U.S
Schlesinger
CIA
Soviet Union
North America
Pentagon moves to sell arms to Turkey and Israel
The Defense Department notified Congress of plans to sell Turkey 229 million dollars in tank modernization kits and Israel 46 million dollars in missiles and launchers under a new oversight amendment. The sale timing sparked Senate and House scrutiny amid a Turkey embargo debate. officials say the notices are preliminary and would not proceed without lifting the ban. A separate item notes California Deaf and Blind schools moving from Berkeley to Fremont in 1978.
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Washington
Defense Department
Congress
Turkey
Capitol Hill
Department
Cyprus
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
Pentagon
Israel
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Sen
Thomas 0. Eagleton
D-Mo
Henry A. Kissinger
Sacramento
California School For the Deaf
California School For the Blind
Berkeley
Fremont
Satellite Landsat 2 Launched To Study Earth Environment
The 1165 pound Landsat 2 satellite was launched from Vandenberg AFB aboard a Delta rocket into a 570 mile orbit. It will survey the globe every 18 days with cameras and sensors to monitor agriculture minerals marine life forestry weather and water resources. A NASA spokesman called the launch fine and noted its trajectory includes Antarctica and the Indian Ocean before returning to the Pacific.
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Vandenberg Afb
UPI
Earth Resources
NASA
South Pacific
Antarctica
Indian Ocean
Egypt
Mediterannean
Europe
Arctic
Pacific
Landsat 2
Judge allows Hearts and Minds film in full ruling
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused a preliminary injunction and allowed the Vietnam era documentary Hearts and Minds to be shown in full including a Rostow segment. Rostow alleged privacy invasion and false light. ACLU supported against deletion.
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Los Angeles
America
Lyndon B. Johnson
Norman R. Dowds
Walt W. Rostow
Johnson
University of Texas
Rostow
Dowds
Hearts and Minds
U.S
American Civil Liberties Union
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Ivers & Pond
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