Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970, Hearings Before ..., 91-1 |
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activities Admiral MUSTIN Admiral SHOWERS Admiral WEEKS Agency Air Force aircraft amount AMSA appropriation Army attack audit bomber BRODSKY budget CALIFORN capability Chairman RUSSELL Chinese civilian committee Congress contract contractor CORP cost deleted Department of Defense deploy deployment dollars effective effort engineering equipment estimate fiscal year 1970 FOSTER FROEHLKE funds going ICBM improved included increase Institute Joint Chiefs major MCCLELLAN ment military personnel million Minuteman Minuteman III Navy nuclear Office Operation and maintenance overseas percent phase Polaris Poseidon problems procurement production projects radar reduce request research and development Russians schools Secretary LAIRD Secretary of Defense Senator ELLENDER Senator MAGNUSON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND Senator YOUNG silos South Vietnam Soviet Union Sprint Sprint missiles statement strategic submarine target threat tion United UNIVERSITY Vietnam warhead weapons WHEELER YORK
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Page 536 - All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.
Page 712 - PERMANENT DISABILITY This category is composed of personnel whose disability has been definitely established as "permanent". Persons may be placed on the permanent disability rolls immediately following the termination of their active duty status or by transfer from the temporary disability rolls.
Page 703 - ... and includes (1) amounts for the indemnification of the Post Office Department for funds embezzled or for claims arising from error, loss or defalcation of unbonded mail clerks and commissioned officers; and (2) claims for damage due to accidents arising under training contracts with contractors, caused by the negligence of military trainees. It is estimated that $95,000 will provide for such miscellaneous claims in fiscal year 1970.
Page 536 - The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the US reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Page 459 - ICBMs on launchers by 1975. We would almost certainly detect ICBM firings to full range, which would necessarily be to an area outside China. Monitoring of these tests should not only provide 1 year advance warning of IOC, but should also provide useful data on the missile characteristics as well. We believe the...
Page 633 - He also participates in plans, programs, and the promulgation of national security policies of domestic and international significance. offices of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Agencies, the unified and specified commands, and within other Department of Defense activities as may be directed. In addition he acts as an adviser to the Secretary of Defense, and where appropriate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters relating to criminal and...
Page 712 - FLEET RESERVE The Fleet Reserve category is composed of Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel having 20 but less than 30 years of service who elect to transfer from active duty to the Fleet. Reserve. Upon completion of 30 years of combined active service and service in the Fleet Reserve or upon being found physically unfit for further military service, such personnel are transferred to the regular retired rolls. It is estimated that...
Page 802 - Implementation of the act requires the postaward review of selected negotiated contracts for more than $100,000 to determine whether the cost or pricing data submitted by contractors were accurate, complete and current as of the time of the negotiation. We have instructed the field audit offices to apply to these postaward reviews approximately 5 percent of the available direct auditor time.
Page 538 - I debated this question with a foreign statesman. He believed that if an atomic war was fought, the whole of mankind would be annihilated. I said that if the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist; in a number of years there would be 2,700 million people again and definitely more.
Page 700 - This appropriation provides the necessary funds for the payment, as prescribed by law, of all noncontractual claims against the Department of Defense. For fiscal year 1971 the Congress appropriated $39 million and authorized a $13 million transfer from the Defense Production Guarantees accounts.