Pentagon Move Aims to Curb Inflated Military Costs
Washington UPI report shows the Pentagon issuing a two stage contract policy to prevent cost overruns. Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard backed cost plus incentive fee development contracts and later fixed price subcontracts to firms able to absorb losses. He suggested the C5A program might not have been awarded under the new rules and warned Lockheed could halt production if costs remain above estimates.
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Laird to Press Tough Arms Choices if SALT Talks Stall
Venice, Italy UPI defense secretary Melvin Laird warned western allies and Moscow that hard decisive arms actions could come within 12 to 18 months if Vienna SALT talks stall. He said NATO ministers met to review nuclear strategy amid no new major decisions and optimistic mood for an agreement.
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Communists seize Saravane and push Laos supply corridor plan
North Vietnamese commandos captured Saravane in southern Laos in a dawn raid 55 miles west of the Vietnamese frontier. The seizure aims to open a new Mekong corridor through Laos and Cambodia to bolster arms and supply routes into South Vietnam as clashes widen in Indochina.
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Cambodia grants South Vietnamese troops access to its soil
Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky announced Cambodia would allow South Vietnamese forces to operate anywhere on Cambodian soil for security. He said Lon Nol approved this in return for training and weapons, and named LT. Gen. Nguyen Duc Thang as Phnom Penh's first South Vietnamese ambassador since relations resumed.
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Rural elites hold land on half of India’s cultivated area
In New Delhi the statistics show that 12 percent of rural families control more than half of the cultivated land in India. The figure highlights stark land ownership concentration and mirrors broader agrarian inequality.
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