European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 d the stars and stripes sunday april 7, let s keep this so Cret for oar own Sake by Dick West Washington up one of the Best Hopes for world peace May lie in the development of better  this strikes you As n rather dubious premise consider therase of the air Force f111a. It is America s newest an most advanced fighter aircraft. Yet there was some reluctance about using it in combat. The trouble is the f111a isso advanced that a lot of its equipment is secret. One senator warned that if infill a were forced Down or shot Down Over enemy territory an communists were Able to Sal Vage its equipment a billion dollars Worth of research would go Down the  concern apparently was not unfounded. Lust week \\nf111a operating out of Thailand was reported missing. If i crashed in North Vietnam the Fella s secrets May not be secret any longer. We May assume that the rus sians also Aro putting secret equipment into their War jets which is Why i soy that technological improvements could contribute to world , i expect fighter aircraft will be so encumbered with secret devices that neither country will dare risk losing  us look ahead a few years. The scene is the ready Roo of the 1492nd fighter Wing. Cpl. Ripple picks up the red Tele phone and Speaks to Gen. Tusch Nucker. Fri Polo sir radar report that unidentified aircraft Are approaching Alaska. Should i Send up a Squadron of f1914a to intercept Tus Zuckor Aro you nuts Ftp pie those f1914s Are equipped with our secret k19 . Suppose one of them strayed Over Siberia and Wail forced Down Ripple but sir the unidentified planes May to the now soviet mig1812s." Tus Nucker that s most , Ripple. The Cia dolls in that mig1812s have a Secord Tannous fluoride control system the soviets would t take a Hance on letting that fall into our  Tus Nucker see if you can borrow a Piper gub from tha civil air patrol. All of of planes Are so highly classified they re  economic measures ready if vietnamese War ends Washington up pres ident Johnson has ready for Swift action a series of alternative plans including a possible tax Cut if there is a outbreak of peace Arthur m. Okun his chief economic adviser has told Congress. But Okun chairman of the president s Council of economic advisers told the House appropriations committee that John son considers higher taxes through a surtax scheme the key to Success to hold Dow inflation during the War. Okun appeared before the committee March 19, but his remarks were not made Public until thursday. Various plans Okun said a Cabinet commit tee for coordinating Post Vietnam planning has Bee Active since last year proposing various alternative plans for peacetime Economy. Such Forward planning i anticipation of a cease fire does not really lend itself to establishing a single plan of action in the event of a outbreak of peace Okun said. Meantime Johnson s proposed10 per cent income tax surcharge and excise tax Extension Bill to raise $15.6 billion in new Revenue was examined for nearly three hours wednesday by House an Senate negotiators. The Senate tax writers tried to sell House bar gainers on the tax hike spending Cut package that was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate on tuesday. Sources said the House members listened to Senate arguments but indicated reluctance to accept any tax measure originating in the Senate. The House and Senate negotiators were to meet again Friday. The Senate lacked the tax hike spending Cut plan onto a noncontroversial House passe Bill extending existing Auto and Telephone excise taxes beyond this past april 1. Meeting cancelled a meeting thursday was can celeb since chairman Wilbur d. Mills of the House ways an Means committee the top House tax writer was schedule to Lead House action on a limited travel tax package to discourage overseas tourism by americans. The ways and Means com Mittee scrapped the original administration plan calling for graduated tax on americans travelling abroad. Instead i adopted the administration s Mildest proposals a 5 per Cen ticket Tux on overseas airline trips and a reduction from $100to $ �0 in the amount of duty free goods that can be brought Home from abroad. In Okun s appearance before the appropriations committee he stressed that Johnson has several choices of plans in the event of  has to examine the numerous alternative scenario by which a slowdown from a wartime Economy might proceed and examine them against a variety of possible backdrop about the probable state of the Economy the time in the budget Cycle and other important conditions Okun  to questions Okun mentioned a tax reduction briefly and indicated it was definitely one of the possibilities. To the extent we have renewed tax reductions we will get a Good response from the businessmen and the Farmer and the consumer in putting that Money into productive use and keeping our labor an capital fully employed with less pressure less uncertainty an better balance Okun said. We would Welcome tha Challenge. I am sure the president would most of  Hughes Nevada Empire spreads to mining land Las vegas Nev. A billionaire Howard Hughes who Jias spent an estimated $125 Mil lion in Las vegas in one year has expanded his Empire to the historic Gold and Silver mining land in Northern Nevada it was Learned thursday. The Hughes tool co. Bought480 acres of land wednesday for a reported $225,000 near Virgi Nia City Center of the Comstock lode Silver and Gold Rush before the turn of the Century. Hughes who has not Bee seen in Public for years has bought four Las vegas  recently neared completion of transactions on two More. A that time his aides said they planned to buy no More Las vegas casinos but they did not Rule out Northern Nevada  mining officials have predicted a rebirth of the com Stock area because of rising Gold and Silver  Union Pacific Railroad recently leased 46 mining claims there. Mervin j. Gallagher stat mining inspector said i would Only speculate that Hughes ingoing to do some mining near by or else build some sort of a Industrial Plant on this property. These claims Here would be peanuts for him. He might be making som sort of a Deal with the Union Pacific which has claims nearby to Treasury to Cost More Washington up the House appropriations commit tee has reported that despite Economy efforts running he Post office and Treasury depart ments will Cost in extra $ 10 million next  broke the bad news to the House in approving an  Money Bill to run the two agencies and related minor of ices in the 12 months starting july 1, that was $181 million less than president Johnson asked in the Comstock lode  said earlier in a rare prepared statement that he would like to have More Indus try in Nevada. The Hughes organization gave no indication of its plans for the newly acquire property. But John Meier Hughes scientific adviser who negotiated for the property said Las month that Gold mining would be a solution to the . Crisis Ingold standards. He said then that More than$12 billion Worth of Gold in the California Mother lode country far to the West of Virginia City could be  Nevada land had been owned by George von Tobel whose family owns a Large store and e. L. Cleveland Bothof Las vegas. Rumpus what s going on is his a or Man s brainchild to trumpet the entry of a Rump candidate into the gop presidential sweepstakes not at All. It is the Spring animal Parade that heralds the arrival of the circus in new York City. Up photo failure of fill s radar is blamed for crash Over Southeast Asia Washington a sources say one of the two air Force f111a fighter bomber lost Over Southeast Asia crashed because of a failure of it revolutionary terrain hugging radar guidance. This is the system which help set the $6 million Craft apart from other planes the radar directed controls allow the Pilot to sit Back hands off a Hilo the f111a automatically rises and dips Accord ing to the Lay of the land. The cause of the first fill crash in late March has not been determined but the Hay wire radar is being blamed in the loss of the second one Only three Days later. Both High powered planes had been in Thailand the Spring Board for Many of the air at tacks on North Vietnam sources said experts who interviewed the two pilots rescued after the second f111a went Down got this version of the Trou ble the plane took off from it base in Thailand with the pilots manually operating the control Sas usual. Shortly after the f111a Wasoff the ground the Crew switched on the terrain guidance  f111a immediately began severe buckling and the Pilot were forced to Cut off the Auto Matic  6,000 feet they tried the system  time the vibrating be came More severe the plan began gyrating and the Crew was forced to  air Force investigating team is on the scene trying to determine what caused the fail ure. The Pentagon is not com menting on questions about the radar malfunctions. The first fill a was last heard from Over Laos in route to a bombing Mission in North Vietnam but its Fate if known has not been  communists claimed they shot Down both  a result of the Quick losses of the supersonic swing singlets the f111a Squadron in Thailand has been grounded an the Senuto preparedness sub committee said it is investigating the situation. Chairman John Stennis d-miss., indicated that As part of the subcommittee s examination of . Tactical air Power the panel wants to know whether the two planes were sent i to combat without adequate test  Force officials say fill As were sent to the Vietnam zone under a project code named Harvester reaper to be tried out under combat conditions