European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1964 Mcnamara answers Plennis we Are not overextended9 March 31 Secretary of defense Rob Ert Mcnamara said thursday the Only four Complete army divisions in the United states Are not fully but he insisted that the nations Overall fighting fitness has not Mcnamara released a letter to chairman John d of the Senate prepared Ness saying i want to emphasize again that the use of these divisions for training purposes should not mislead us or others into concluding that we Are overextended or that our Over All combat readiness has de the defense Secretary spoke at a news conference a Day after Stennis said in a statement that Mcnamara had assured a Senate appropriation subcommittee last August that All divisions Are ready to go to com Bat asked to comment on Mcnamara refused to get into an open argument with the appealing for Unity in a time of Mcnamara said i want to avoid personalities and praised Stennis As a Man of great personal the defense fire increasingly from but under obviously was concerned about a Tenniss state ment which went at length nto of subcommittee investigators that the four divisions in some cases Only 5 per cent of strength last the defense Secretary wrote Senate that the four regular Amy divisions Are being used to train rookies in order to build up the regular forces and save the reserves for possible Emer Mcnamara acknowledged thai he four divisions now Are manned about 50 per cent by men with less than four months under a Man May not be sent overseas until he has had at least four months of they Are trained curb on spending requested by lbs March 31 up president Johnson appealed to All sections of the american Economy thursday to fight inflation by immediately Cuttle in on unnecessary the presidents Iii do in a speech to a meeting of the National league of was addressed to All from corporate executives and Union leaders to housewives and the statement was Johnsons most detailed outline to Date on the dangers of it allowed a White House meet ing wednesday night with top business leaders at which he enlisted their Aid through cutting Down on investments for Plant we have not decided in the Federal Branch of government that the situation is such As to require wag Price controls or such As to require a tax increase the president he said he not think any compulsory controls should be placed on the Economy when voluntary Steps could Deal with soldiers of Good Fortune trained for fighting for peace follow their exploits in the tic but he did say hat he would not hesitate to Ake further regardless of this being an election ii hey should become Johnson said that even housewives could loin in the a talc by refusing to buy products whose prices keep Johnson called on Industry readers to postpone some s8 billion of Plant mayors o Cut Back Public and and housewives to shun the higher priced prices Nave been climbing much too fast for Comfort and if i Haven done enough about 1 Johnson but the Economy is no shooting off into outer space a wag Price he told he City and the effect of major ant inflation measures already taken remains to be so the proper course now is he Are touching the not clamping them not risking a skid into recession or Depres in an hour Long close door address to the business Counci at a White House dinner wednesday Johnson asked and obtained assurances that a number of front rank in Austria Tolsti will Cut Back their Post potable outlays for i Plant and the company with the great est of All capital spending pro american Telephone ii Telegraph issued through a spokesman t statement saying it would try to hold 1968 construction to a level comparable to our 1u9 program Ahou the Secretary told they Are not combat ready in his letter to he said that As a result of the vast expansion of the army training the number of trained army troops has risen by in the past five months and will increase by another 000 to a planned total of 000 by the end of by this Mcna Mara the army will have he capability to deploy trained replacements to Viet Nam at a rate equivalent to More than one division each month in add Ion to the under emergency to deploy a nine division Force in do the four army divisions at Ssue Are the 1st and 2nd army dive at the 4th inf div at and the 9th mechanized inf div at aides of Stennis said that he had reel cd Mrna Maras let Ter but would have no immedi ate lists Steps Steps Mcnamara listed As taken to offset what he called the temporary reductions in the readiness of the four army divisions include of a selectee Reserve Force of men which is being brought to the highest stale of readiness Ever achieved in the Reserve of the oth inf div and three Independent in the Tola strength of the regular army trained and partially trained to by the end of june it is increasingly Clear that we can meet our current plans with respect to South Viet Nam without calling up the re Mcnamara told news if there were an emergency he it could be met by extending duty Tours in Viet Nam by extending enlistments involuntarily to add More men a Day to the army and by calling to Active duty hundreds of thousands of Europe need of cited March 11 up nato command Erin Ihlen Lyman Lemnitzer maintained thursday that con need leadership in Europe s necessary to maintain peace n the and he called Europe vital to Security Lemnitzer offered his luring a closed session of the House foreign affairs com his statement was Dos Ribu Ted to the general appeared in sup port of the s917 million the administration has requested for military overseas assistance Dur no the next Lemnitzer did not specifically mention the current rift in nato Lemming from Frances Dos plea Are Over american leadership of president reelected at dec Apt conference by Sid staff writer april 1 sets William hasten assistant superintendent of for Pupil personnel in prance and now stationed in was reelected presi Dent of the european Congress of american parents and teach ers at the Ogan rations Spring conference which came to a close Robert assistant Prin Cipal and student adviser of the bad Kreuz Nach elementary was chosen de an air Force Pilot stationed at was elected vice president for Region and chaplain Arthur of bad is the new vice president for Region thursdays Eca pts sessions entered around the promotion of International understanding As a Way to world in a Gen eral meeting at toe Alpine delegates heard panel of German and american speak ers discuss procedures by which the american Community in Ger Many can become better acquainted with the German people their and their culture Walter Stan of Hamburg once a pow in America Ani now vice president and director of the Atlantic an association devoted to Gerrman Aire rican explained the methods of his organization in strengthening the ties Between the two Alfred consult ant for languages who is attached to the dependent european emphasized the 1m Ortance of language study in i american Don former program director for an Ard now associated with radio free Europe entertained the thurs Day evening with a discussion o French cooking from the View Point of a gourmet million russians Moscow april 1 population of the soviet Union i now according to statistical handbook Publ she ure the but he did it is my View that continued leadership in Europe is necessary for maintaining peace n an important area of the world which u vital to United states Security he did not Lemnitzer said the military assistance program had proved self n Europe and that the funds requested for the coming year would continue to enhance he military posture of our allies in promote our Mutual jets collide one lands by James Gunter staff writer april 1 s4s a reconnaissance plane limped Back to this base after a collision with a Canadian Jet which crashed in Eastern air Force officials ice two Canadian pilots ejected safely 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