European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stems defense chief Congress unit Square off for Battle of the american technology does no Jet know Bow to provide the instrumentation the b70 needs for foil effectiveness. By the time these essential fuel Are known the to May not be needed by fee . Military. Up Poi there a Mccaman by Charles w. Odd re Washington up defens Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara is described As determined hot to yield an Inch to powerful Congress men who want the 2,000-mile-an hour b70 bomber started on the High Road toward the Raultia Pihion Dollar production goal computing devices the to needs for reconnaissance and Issue air ing at triple sonic Speed and that by the time it can be done the plane May not be needed. His facts and concepts Are disputed by other experts with presumably equal credentials. His chief antagonist is Carl Vin like Many another member of Congress and like the famed bombardment expert Gen Curtis e. Lemay who is the air Force chief of staff Vinson fears Mcnamara and the Young engineers on his staff will put America out of the bomber they Are no persuaded by anything they have tit i this drawing shows Bow the 2,00-Nille-an-hour to bomber will look on Takeoff. Associated press Robert s. Mcnamara the defense chief who usually wins congressional contests while juggling a flown other military problems attaches such importance to stopping the b7q movement that he plans to devote the next 10 Days almost solely to the task. His facts Are that american technology does not yet know How to provide the complicated radar and j son a a chairman of the House armed services committee which supports v in son to a Man. Vinson has been in Congress two years longer the 45-year-old Mcnamara has been alive and has won Many a defense Battle with the executive Branch. Seldom has he thrown himself into a conflict wit More Fervour. Kennedy Tariff plan boldest since for s Washington a debate that seems certain of its place in history opened this week. Cabinet members begin presenting to the House ways and Means committee their Case for president Kennedy s proposed new Trade program. Or. Kennedy is asking Congress for a change of course in Tariff matters sharper than any presi Dent has sought since Franklin d. 1934. Armed with All the crisis generated magic of the Early new Deal Roosevelt persuaded the legislators to approve a revolutionary Lariff cutting reciprocal Trade program essentially what or Kennedy seek id he Appeal for widened Trade negotiating Powers is an Extension of whal Roosevelt Jot Bui or Kennedy in not King for authority to do things the Earth for president never bin led Cut come tariffs to into a trial partnership with a Supranational body unforeseeable in 1934. The european economic Community. Bargain on tariffs not item by item but across the Board to Broad categories. In effect recognize thai some us. Businesses will not stand the Competition in their accustomed lines and meet this by providing worker retraining and capital re adjustment aids if co tres agrees 11 will be to Entac a course it has Fol Lowed heretofore in writing tighter limitation on the Prmt Doit actions whenever it voted to continue the reciprocal Trade program. Roosevelt i and or. Kennedy s similar legislative drives Spring from strikingly different International circumstances. To 1934 the economies of the United states and the world were prostrate world Trade was Down to 35 per cent of pre depression volume. Us foreign Trade was off 76 per cent. Countries were desperately hiking their Tariff Walls. This country s own Tariff barriers had been raised to a record High by the Smoot Hawley act. But the problems of 1962 Are problems of Success rather than Europe and Japan have made roaring comebacks from the devastation of world War allies helped Buck on their in Momic feet and Long prod ded toward Unity by the United tales have succeeded so Well that the european common Market now rivals this country As an exporter and also As the possessor of a huge and Rich internal Market. The i noted states while still a net exporter must sell even More of its goods abroad to balance its continuing Aid and military sex 4m Jid iture overseas. The arguments against such a policy Are much the same As those used in 1934 and Back through Cost americans jobs opponents of or. Kennedy s proposal say. And the Point to unemployment persisting stubbornly into prosperous times still 5.6 per cent in the present advanced stage of recovery they argue it will be Lime to abolish Trade barriers when other countries pay their worker something approaching , rates they claim the easier Tariff policies of the past 98 years have had visible had effect of Many industries Iron mining for example Oil textiles Ohms and Many Sciull specialities. Meanwhile Here is a Gist of Congress past performance corded Hull who came to the Secretary of state s desk from so years of working in Congress to lower tariffs watched Roosevelt sign the original reciprocal Trade act june 12. 1934, and recorded. Each stroke of the pen seemed to write a message of gladness in my heart the House had ranged the Law 174 111. The Senate 67-33. The act was Good for three years Only but Congress twice extended it without change for similar periods. By the wartime year 1943, resist Ance was building up. The act was extended Only two years. In 1045 Congress again voted a three year Extension and authorized further cuts in tariffs already reduced. But this feature had close squeak in the house212-181. In 1948 sponsors had to give More ground. The Extension was Only for one year and Congress introduced the peril Point concept a requirement that the Tariff commission might set a Point below which the Tariff on any item should not in its opinion be Cut. If the president overrode this recommendation he. Had to notify Congress. Presi Dent fairly regularly have done so. In 1949 there was a Brief re action and the peril Point restriction was dropped but it came backing 1951, along with another legislative Brake the escape clause by which the Tariff commission could recommend cancellation of a Tariff Cut if it resulted in serious damage or threat of damage to an Industry. The president retained final say. The act was renewed without substantial change in 1953 and 1954 and in 1955 a limited amount of additional Tariff cutting Power was voted. But so was another limitation a clause requiring checks to determine whether additional imports would threaten National defense. The latest Extension of the old Law in effect until next july 1, was voted in 1958. It gave the Tariff commission More Elbow room in escape clause investigations and introduced a potentially new Brake not yet used. Congress was Given a veto Over presidential decisions not to use the escape clause. However a two thirds vote would be required. This is the Law or. Kennedy wants thoroughly rewritten. Seen so far that missiles Are that Good. As the Battle Heads into its third week this is the situation the air Force with defense department encouragement has changed the primary Mission of the to from bomber to a reconnaissance strike plane which could Fer ret out hard to find targets and pummel them with missiles and bombs. It is now called the rs70. Its Basic Structure and aerodynamics Are the same but its electronics would be vastly More advanced. Mcnamara want three experimental planes the first of which will Fly next december to test the flying qualities of an unprecedented triple sonic machine operating far above 70.000 feet. The air Force wants three fur ther planes ordered. These would be increasingly Complex and would wind up As fully operational com Bat aircraft. This program would eventuate in production of the rs70perhaps As Many As 150 air planes at a Cost Mcnamara Esti mated at $10 billion. Vinson and his committee have Carl yla sob largely endorsed the air plan after listening to Velemay and their experts have sent a Bill to the House which directs the air spend not less than $491in the year starting jury 1 rs70 project Mcnamara Only $171 million and cont can t spend More than that12-month period. 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