Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed ServicesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 |
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Admiral HOLLOWAY Admiral MOORER Admiral RICKOVER Air Force air wing aircraft carrier airpower anti-ship missile areas attack carrier force authorized aviation bill bombers budget capability carrier force level carrier task force Chairman Chiefs of Staff combat command Committee Congress cost cruise missile deleted Department of Defense deployed destroyers disposal effectiveness enemy escorts fighter fiscal fleet fuel funds Government industry Korean Korean war land bases land-based air material Mediterranean military million mission modern Navy's Nimitz class carriers nuclear carrier nuclear power nuclear propulsion nuclear-powered Pacific procurement Representative BENNETT Representative STAFFORD Representative STRATTON role sea-based Secretary of Defense Senator CANNON Senator MONDALE Senator STENNIS Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND sensors shipyard short tons sorties South Vietnam Soviet Soviet Navy statement stockpile strategic Subcommittee submarines tactical air threat tons U.S. Navy United Vietnam vulnerable warships weapons World World War II
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Page 42 - That the time and method of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Page 140 - The flag of the Soviet Navy now flies proudly over the oceans of the world. Sooner or later, the United States will have to understand that it no longer has mastery of the seas.
Page 64 - The plan and date of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss on the sale or transfer of the material to be released and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets...
Page 64 - Act may be made only after publicly advertising for bids, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section or as otherwise authorized by law. All bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so.
Page 8 - To provide Fleet Marine Forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the Fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be...
Page 236 - ... of communication, to establish and maintain local superiority (including air) in an area of naval operations, to seize and defend advanced naval bases, and to conduct such land and air operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 636 - I do not want to see an American President in the future, in the event of any crisis, have his diplomatic credibility be so impaired because the United States was in a secondclass or inferior position. We saw what it meant to the Soviets when they were second. I don't want that position to be the United States' in the event of a future diplomatic crisis.
Page 25 - ... award shall be made with reasonable promptness by notice to the responsible bidder whose bid, conforming to the invitation for bids, will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered : Provided, That all bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so.
Page 146 - Caribbean in the past, and can continue to do so in the future, given a favorable investment climate. NOTES 1. See K. Holbik, "Development Finance and Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries," Journal of Economic Development 4 (July 1979), pp.
Page 381 - Second, we shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security.