Sep 14 1972
From The Space Library
Senate approved U.S.-U.S.S.R. Interim Agreement on Limitation of Strategic Arms by vote of 88 to 2. Agreement was passed after adoption of amendment proposed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) that urged President Nixon to seek future treaty which would not limit U.S. to levels of intercontinental strategic forces inferior to limits provided to U.S.S.R. (CR, 9/14/72, S14859, 514868-14913)
Senate passed with technical amendment H.R. 10243, bill to establish Office of Technology Assessment for Congress and to amend National Science Foundation Act of 1950. Bill had been passed by House Feb. 8. (CR, 9/14/72, S14915)
NASA Management Issuance signed by Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, designated members of NASA Historical Advisory Committee: Dr. Louis Morton, Chairman of Dartmouth College Dept. of History, Committee Chairman; Dr. A. Hunter Dupree, Professor of History, Brown Univ.; Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, Callaway Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Dr. Rodman W. Paul, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Elting E. Morison, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was appointed to committee in October. (NASA NMI 1156.2D; NASA Hist Off)
Decision to place long-range orders for equipment and material to construct six Anglo-French Concorde supersonic transports was announced by British and French officials at Paris press conference. Final decision on whether to assemble aircraft would be deferred pending negotiations with potential buyers. French Transport Minister Robert Galley said first 16 Concordes were "practically sold." Decision "taken today should allow us to fix delivery dates in the course of negotiations with companies now in progress." (Agence France-Presse, NYT, 9/24/72, 14)
Use of reconnaissance satellite under control of United Nations to spy out opium gardens throughout world was recommended by Gen. Lewis W. Walt (USMC, Ret.) in testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Internal Security. Gen. Walt had made worldwide study of heroin addiction and smuggling. (UPI, D News, 9/15/72)
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