Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967 - NASA's History Office

ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1967 November 29
reception. (SBD, 11/30/67,149; GSFC SSR, 11/30/67; GSFC Historian;
Aero Tech, 12/4/67,17; lnteravia, 12J67,1%2)
* Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara would take new post as President
of World Bank with approval of President Johnson, McNamara
said. He explained that President George Woods of World Bank had
offered him position Apr. 18 but, because of deep obligation to serve
US. President, his decision had been deferred. President Johnson had
informed him in October that nomination to succeed Woods would soon
have to be made. Agreement that post would go to McNamara had been
reached, but he would stay on job “at least long enough into next year to
complete the work on the military program and financial budget for
fiscal year 1969.” (DOD Release 1130-67; NYT, 11/30/67,16)
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul
C. Warnke, in hearings before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
presented DOD views on ocean space activities by nations. He considered
S. Joint Res. 111, introduced by Sen. Norris Cotton (R-N.H.), ranking
minority member of Senate Committee on Commerce, and S. Res. 172
and 186, introduced by Sen. Claiborne Pel1 (D-R.I.) , member of Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. He cited primary concern and interest
of DOD to be US. use of the “ocean environment for purposes of maintaining
or enhancing our national security.”
Pointing out deep ocean exploitation involved “unsettled areas” of
international law-one area being ‘(the appropriate breadth of the continental
shelf”-Warnke cited the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental
Shelf and noted that congressional policy “in this field is manifested
in the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of
1966.”
He stated that DOD supported the need for comprehensive studies on
ocean exploration and exploitation reflected in Senate Joint Resolution
111. On security grounds, he specifically objected to Section IV of S.
Res. 186 on “use of seabed and subsoil of ocean space for peaceful purposes
0nly” until thorough studies could be completed leading to “a
sound judgment consistent with security” of US. Further objection was
voiced by Warnke on a “sea guard” which S. Res. 186 called for; his
argument cited “the difficult political and military problems inherent in
the organizing of international peacekeeping or enforcement agencies
or forces.” (Testimony)
* NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket, Lunched from Sonmiani, Pakistan,
carried payload to peak altitude of 175 km (109 mi) to obtain atmospheric
wind and temperature data up to 135 km (m mi). Grenade and
chemical cloud techniques were used by experimenters, Dr. D. Rees, London,
England, and Mr. M. Rahmatullah, Karachi, Pakistan. Rocket performed
satisfactorily; grenade-explosion timing sequence was late. (NASA
Rpt SRL)
Reduction in total number of positions throughout NASA would approximate
5%, because of budget cuts, NASA announced. NASA would eliminate
1,700 jobs; it now employed about 32,000 persons. MSFC would lose 700
employees and JPL 550. Other reductions included: MSC, 189; GSFC, 96;
L~RC, 246; L~RC, 191; ERC, 225; ARC, 79; Wallops Station, 21; Space
Nuclear Propulsion Office, 2; and NASA Hq, 142. KSC would be the only
NASA field center to add personnel in 1968, a total of 211. (Aero Tech,
11/20/67,3; von Braun, Marshall Sur, 11/29/67,1; W Post, 11/30/67,
A9; mi, NYT, 12/1/67,5; Av Wk, 12/4/67,31)
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