European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 18, 1967 the stars and stripes no end in sight for fierce f-111 controversy by Henry keys the. F"111a thai to Voa e,nr.t� to 1 a ,. Washington up the f111a the world s most Hotl debated aircraft is due to go operational within a few Day when the first regular combat Model Rolls off the product online. But it is unlikely that this will see an end to the fierce Contro Versy that has raged throughout the five years that it has taken to develop this extraordinary plane to its combat readiness is unfortunate because when All has been said and done the f111 the air Force ver Sion of the six member fill fam ily promises to be the most revolutionary and widely Capa ble warplane Ever and Australia Are two countries so impressed with i that they placed orders for it Britain for 50 and Australia for24. Australia will get the air Craft in july november next year and Britain will gets its planes beginning in january 1970.yet there Are those who condemn the fill even now Power Ful men like sen. John w. Mcclellan d-ark., chairman of the Senate permanent investigating committee. The whole family of fill planes is falling far Short of expectations and costing More than twice As much As anticipated he says. The prospects for thef111a Are better than for the he adds but it i never going to be the plane they thought they were going to it is the Navy s version of the p 1 a n e the f111b that has incurred greatest congressional the political rows that have raged around the fill pro Gram from the moment of it Conception it seems that it is coming off the production line ready for service almost solely because of the dogged determination of one Man Robert s. Mcnamara the defense Secre tary. It is Clear too that the Row that has raged around it is due also to one Man fill storm burst in 1962, when Mcnamara enraged con Gress by giving the go ahead to develop the plane by the ground rules he established for its de sign and by his decision to Stormy scene a map of the unite states superimposed on a weather picture taken by the Essa satellite shows Hurri Cane Doria just off the East coast anther sister Chloe out in the Western at lactic. The map also shows a Low pres sure system Center de on North Dakota and a frontal band from Wisconsin to Texas. Up photo accused of false designing claims miss world cuts another caper butt of a y f1 _ of j it _ _ _. London sept. 17 a Reita Faria who won the title of miss world As the shy Serene Beauty from India sunday found herself the Center of another controversy in her Stormy two Days after she announced that she was starting anew career As a fashion designer and Model another designer in Reita of glory signing. An the material the same firm quit and accuse her of taking All the credit for my i did the sketches got the material had the patterns and the samples Cut complained22-year-old designer Jane Fox. I did she said All miss world did was to Model the clothes add ing she knows nothing about de As for choosing miss Faria could t Tell sacking from miss Faria replied calmly i m very surprised to hear about Jane s resignation. She is a very Nice girl. We worked to Gether on this. I won t take the credit forthe cutting. Jane did this from my sketches. I could t possibly Cut out material. I never Learned. But the ideas and influence were since the dark haired medical student from India was crowned miss world 10 months ago Shehas Rug with a reason Augsburg Germany is a big Wool traveler s Check made out for 20 american Dol Lars has been installed in the lobby of a Bank Here As a 4-by-10-foot carpet specially made in Hong Kong forthe Augsburg Commer Bank is a duplicate of an american express co. Traveler s Check such As those sold by the Bank. Dropped her Boyfriend Backhoe and announced she will be married to an american lawyer David Gorton 31, of los Ange Les fought with the promoters of the Beauty contest who have her under contract Over Book Ings squabble with the India government Over american troops entertaining in Vietnam when India is against . Involvement there stood up sponsors of a trip to Ecuador by showing up three Days late and without he Crown. Commented Eric Morley who promotes the miss world con tests her reign has been the storm Iest of the raids cripple unloading at Haiphong Washington a takes about four times As Long to unload a cargo ship in North Vietnam s Haiphong Harbor now As it did about nine months ago the Pentagon indicated sat is interpreted As a sign that the . Air offensive staking effect. This is because intelligence sources say supplies and equip ment Are piled All around the Harbor Shore often in the open apparently because they cannot be moved out fast enough to Clear the storage spaces. Award the contract for its development and production to general dynamics corp. Of for Worth tex., when his own de sense department experts unanimously said the contract should go to the Boeing co. He aroused inter service ire particularly in the Navy by in sisting that the plane be so de signed As to serve both the air Force and the Navy. $1 billion saving the commonality thu achieved he said would result in a single weapon system Capa ble of use by different services for different missions would avoid the wastefulness of a multiplicity of weapons serving Sim Ilar ends and result in an even Tual saving of $1 service officials and con Gress already detested Mcna Mara who left As president of the Ford motor co. To take Over the defense department because he had applied Industrial efficiency methods to military projects and turned Down congressional and services recommendations on the basis of his own Independent judgments. Congress and the service joined forces to go after Mcna Mara s commonality concept was not Only impractical but nonsensical the argument ran. Mcclellan set out to prove stand also that Mcnamara had been guilty of something in Savory in giving general dynamics the contract Over Boeing. Reflection on integrity pie held committee hearings which amassed 3,000 pages of testimony and provoked Mcna Mara to protest that the commit tee inquiry was reflecting adversely on his committee never has produced a report or published an findings but today four years later Mcclellan and other Equall tendentious congressmen Are still after far As the f-111 program is concerned they have hit him where it really hurts the lagging development of the f-111b, the Navy s plane. Production of the first combat ready f-111b is already 2y 2 year behind schedule because of numerous difficulties encountered i developing the Basic design to air Craft Carrier requirements. Progress obscure unfortunately the troubles with the a have obscured for the Public the dramatic Progress made with the there have been problems with the a too of course. It would have been remarkable if this had not been the an air Force colonel Alfred Esposito assistant for f-111 pro Grams says we Are flying in areas where no one has Ever flown before and no one else is even attempting to Fly Short the main problems encountered Are entirely new problems in aerodynamics and of course avionics the out of this world electronic gear that is packed into the Falls. Cheating charge closes Reno Casino Reno Nev. Up the stat of Nevada stopped the Dice at one of Reno s top Casino saturday night when the place was accused of cheating the customers. The Riverside hotel voluntarily shut Down its Dice tables Roulette wheel Blackjack Gam and most of its Slot machines. The Nevada gaming control Board noted for its passion to keep the state s Legal games of Hance honest moved swiftly when its agents said they found crooked Dice being used in the hotel s Board sought an emergency order from the Nevada gaming commission to shut Down the Casino. But the hotel voluntarily closed the tables stopped the wheels and unplugged most of the Slot was the most sensational accusation of cheating at Renoir years. Observers could not recall a major Casino in Reno having been hit with a cheating seemed a bit puzzled when things stopped rolling but there was no great excitement. A few Little old ladies kept putting coins in the slots although most of them weren t working because the electricity had been an unexplained reason several Slot machines remained operational. The hotel management comment on the charges. Gaming control Board chair Man Frank Johnson said crooked Dice were slipped into game Early saturday
