HOUSE UNIT PLANS EARLY PREPAREDNESS HEARINGS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2005
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• Publication Date: January 23, 1965
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Closed-Door Sessions to Open Feb. 2 i7n,
House; Senate Inquiry Du: Week Lair
WASHINGTON-- theI IU
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House Armed Services Coin-
%mittee will et 1 one-~ el
ing closed -door hearings
Feb. 2 on the American mili-
tary posture.
Plans for the House inqui-
ry were announced Friday
by 'Rep. L. Mendel. Rivers
(D-S.C.), committee chair-
man.
Thursday Sen. Richard B.
Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of
the Senate Armed' Services
Committee, said his ' group
will begIn closed' hearings
g rt,ervlc: roan r:at.~d tcil
co" t }: i I. t .nil lion it. Y!; ! I'; -
f-Io - +?er. t clr'r -~c one.:;.
sate .-lit to
day by the i': rsicien': inllicat-
ect eel,' a +'revioiv' o.l pay
scales is planned a:n.i t.hat.no
money is l ndtn.:?ted nor a
raise. .
Granted l-:5isr.s
Last year the .in to iy. re-
ceived ',19) mi]lior- in' pay
-*aiue.s ;+t ever ing :l for oft i
c?J~rs ar.d ,sli{;htly le~.s for eni-j
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tention to focus on U.S. pol-
icy in Vietnam, as part of thel Rivers said eve
~o~ rall e f e -z s e e roJtnuit-
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Rivers singled out.problems`ships is falling to keep,
ship building. programs as
objects of his' special con-
cern.
alireast of t.ha times. Hi seidj
lie expects to' gtie.,:,tioli de-j
Tense leade~?, cloaealy on'
plans ( venwally to convert
First Action the Nary.:to nuclear power.
- I-t i ve r s announced the The .Navy got one nuclear-
hea;rhigs in his first official powered aircraft cao.rier and
act as cha,r?-nast.of the com- u 1G@(I for in.ore, but the last
mittee sii ce succeeding Rep. two ca, riers authori acad.; will
Cat] Vinson (D-Ga.), who re-'--s'e Conve-it.loaal fuel as a ire-:
tired in January after 50 cult of :'VIcNamnara's cveirul
yeann in Congress. it-.g of Navy !,..inquests ,;:,J
IR.ivers"said the committee
will cover all world trouble
spots, including whether:Eu-.
iopean allies have met North
Atlantic Treaty Organizatio-t
requirements,
He said the committee also
will. question. Defense Seci?e'
I'ta ry' Robert S. blcNa~mara'
and defense Iofficials on
Iplain?s' for"new manned ofr
planes a-id' a McNamara.'
)laii, 'announced in Deceni.
Der, for?combining Army re-i -
serves and the', NationalV
Guard. .. - ? ?
"Eroding morale" of mili-I
taty personnel will be a ma-
jor.gubject^'Rivers indicated;
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