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Show Hayden Says Reliance on ICBM Jeopardizes National Survival slow," Hayden writes. He sums up: "Missiles are all-or-nothing weapons. You cannot call them back. Men in airplanes can be sent to look and appraise, to report, to await new orders. They can scout, find moving or unmapped targets, destroy them on the spot. Or they can be recalled, re-called, with no harm done. "They can give the Commander Com-mander in Chief time for decision. deci-sion. He does not face the intolerable in-tolerable dilemma that forces him either to fire his intercontinental intercon-tinental weapons at once on a possible false alarm or risk a delay which might doom millions." mil-lions." i but Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara refused to spend the money. The RS-70, Hayden writes, is a "fabulous aircraft," which flies at 80,000 feet more than three times the speed of sound. It embodies em-bodies an entirely new principle prin-ciple of "compression lift" which lets the plane ride its own shock wave as as surfboard rides a breaker. "It is the only plane that flies more cheaply fast than The decision to abandon manned bombers in favor of "the largely untried" intercontinental intercon-tinental missile is "dangerously wrong" and "places our national survival in jeopardy," Chairman Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) of the Senate Appropriations Committee Commit-tee charges in the November Reader's Digest. "Before it is too late, the decision de-cision must be reversed," Hayden Hay-den writes. He quotes Chairman Richard Russell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services Committee: Commit-tee: "The many failures we have had in ballistic-missile launching launch-ing have made me unwilling to rest the destiny of this nation in dependence on missiles." Most members of Congress and all top planners of the Air Force share this opinion, Hayden writes in the article "We Need Manned Bombers!" The decision to terminate development work on the 2000-mile-an-hour RS-70 was made by former President Eisenhower and has been endorsed by President Presi-dent Kennedy, in spite of Congressional Con-gressional opposition. Last year and again this year, Congress provided funds for a full development devel-opment program on the RS-70, |