ABM a danger?
Decision on ABM proposal is firmly split
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two reports-one by a group of industrialists, former military men and scientists, the other by lawyers, editors, professors and scientists-reached firm but opposite conclusions yesterday about whether America would be safer or in more danger if the ABM is built.
Supporting President Nixon's
Safeguard Antiballistic Missile (ABM) proposal was a 60-page report by the Chicago-based American Security Council, which said the Russians may not want war but "are preparing for every contingency, including nuclear war, and however it may come they intend to get in the first blow according to their own doctrine."
Against the Safeguard ABM was a group empanelled by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., which argued, in a one-pound report, that the weapon probably would not work, could be foiled by an enemy's deceptive tactics and would jeopardize an arms control agreement.
Participating in the American Security Council's study were William F. Libby, a Nobel prize winning chemist; William J. Thaler, the physicist who developed "over the horizon" radar; and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Congressional decision due on cigarette smoking issue
provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former presidential science adviser; Bill D. Moyers, special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson and now publisher of Newsday; Nobel prizewinning physicist Bernard Feld; Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies, and Theodore C. Sorensen, adviser to the late President John F. Kennedy.
WASHINGTON (UPI) Congress is getting closer to the deadline for decisions on health and cigarette smoking--but is understanding the problem less.
They argued that the ABM would force an enemy "to greatly multiply his arsenal with greatly sophisticated missiles before he could dare to attack. This enormously complicates his offensive problem and adds immeasurably to the deterrent effectiveness of our own offensive missiles."
Pickle, after hearing one medical witness testify there is no "scientific" evidence that smoking harms health, even proposed "investigating the investigators."
exasperated congressman, Rep.
J. J. Pickle, D-Tex., asked "Who are we going to believe?"
Among those participating in the anti-ABM study prepared for Kennedy were Jerome Weisner,
A summation of the situation in the wake of a new round of hearings before the House Commerce Committee is that Congress has about the same information it had five years ago.
June 30 is the expiration date of a 1965 law under which Congress has, for the specific period, preempted the control of cigarette advertising.
But there is little time left to follow Pickle's idea of a congressional inquiry into all the various investigations in the field of smoking and its possible effect on health.
The same law provided for the
In 1964 the surgeon general issued his much debated report that statistics show a correlation between smoking and cancer deaths. Tobacco industry experts challenged the findings.
Today the surgeon general says much the same thing, the tobacco industry experts still challenge the statement, and one
statement that now appears on every cigarette pack: "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to your Health."
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If Congress fails to extend its own controls over tobacco advertising the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission would be free to impose such restrictions of their own.
In deciding whether to restrict or protect cigarette advertising Congress also must consider economic consequences.
Gov. Hugh Scott of North Carolina, the nation's biggest tobacco producing state, told the subcommittee that hunger and joblessness might result from too much repression.
With a complex set of issues before them many congressmen seemingly are unable to make up their own minds about the original proposition that smoking endangers one's health.
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Borman's new post with the space station task group will also be a management job. He will remain at the manned spacecraft center in Houston, sources said.
Borman said when he became Slayton's deputy that he wanted to get experience in management.
During the flight of Apollo 8 Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders held the
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Borman resigns astronaut corps
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) - Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman who commanded mankind's first trip around the moon, has resigned from the astronaut corps, it was learned yesterday.
Borman will accept a post in the space agency's program to develop orbiting space stations.
Borman, who joined the spaceman corps in 1962, will become field director for a special space agency task group working on advanced space station design, sources said.
Informed sources said yesterday was Borman's last day as an astronaut. They said his new job would be officially announced today by the space agency.
His resignation leaves the space agency with 50 astronauts.
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After the Jan. 9 flight, the space agency announced Borman had been promoted to second in command of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts. He became deputy to astronaut chief Donald K. "Deke" Slayton.
Borman, a 40-year-old Air Force colonel and a veteran of the two-week Gemini 7 flight which set a world record for duration in orbit, said at the time he would never fly in space again.
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