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COUNTDOWN
Boeing Savs
Polities Involved
In Plane Contract
SEATTLE UP — A Senate com
mittee staff member is looking
into rumors politics was involved
in the TFX fighter-bomber con
tract award to the General Dy
namics Corp., the Seattle Times
said Tuesday.
General Dynamics was chosen
over the Boeing Co. for the rich
military plum, expected to event
ually to be worth $6 billion. The
new supersonic all-purpose plane
will be built for the Air Force and I
Navy.
Reports that politics played a i
role in the selection of General
Dynamics have been carried by
several national news magazines.
The Times said it was told by
Sen. John McClellan, <D-Ark.>,
chairman of the Senate’s perma
nent subcommittee on investiga
tions:
‘'This matter has been called to
the attention of the investigating
committee, and I have directed a
staff member to make a tentative,
or preliminary, check and report
back to me on the completion of
his survey.”
McClellan, who was reached at
his office in Little Rock, Ark., was
quoted further as saying he ex
pected the report before Congress
convenes Jan. 9 and the commit
tee would then decide whether a
full investigation was justified.
Boeing confirmed here that a
Senate investigator has been in
touch with the aerospace firm’s
Washington office in connection
with the TFX award, but declined
further comment.
General Dynamics plans to build
the TFX at its Forth Worth, Tex.,
plant where the B-58 bomber pro
gram has been phased out.
Risky Business . . .
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. UP)
— Byron Johnson, 28, was dusting
a pepper field Sunday when the
engine of his plane failed.
The plane crashed into a row of
pine trees, fell 40 feet and land
ed on its nose, pushing the en
gine into the cabin. Johnson was
pinned against twisted emtal.
It took a dozen farm laborers
to free the pilot. Johnson was i
treated at a hospital and released. I
Guard Chiefs Pass the
Buck to the Governors
For Streamlining Units
WASHINGTON UP — State Na
i tional Guard chiefs Tuesday buck
ed to the governors a decision
on the controversial Army plan to
streamline the Guard.
Unable to reach a unified posi
tion in two days of wrangling, the
Guard chiefs of all states but
j Alaska finally agreed to refer the
l matter to the Governors’ Confer
1 ence.
Maj. Gen. James Cantwell,
Adjutant General of New Jersey
and president of the group, told
reporters the Guard Generals were
sending a letter to Gov. Ernest
Vandiver of Georgia, chairman of
the Governors’ Conference Com
mittee on Guard matters.
Cantwell said the letter out
lines what he called “certain con
cerns’’ and requests Vandiver and
his committee meet with Secre
tary of Defense Robert McNamara
in “an attempt to negotiate some
| of the differences.”
! No Meat for Cubans
! KEY WEST, Fla. UP — Meat
j eating Cubans will have to tight
j en their belts next week. Havana
i radio reported last night there’ll
| be no meat distribution the week
| of Dec. 17-23.
; The reason for this, said a broad
; cast monitored here, is that
butcher shops will be busy pre
paring the Christmas bounty of
suckling pig.
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