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Show i r" 7 eSp;: y j (k Zb I m ' 4A : v 0 7 tr V IF THEIR HUSBANDS These are FOLD parlous and zling times. magazine declares that President Gerald Ford will not he a news A candidate in 1976, explaining that his wife is not a well woman. She suffers from chronic arthritis of the upper spine and the side effects of the chemotherapy pre- scribed following her mastectomy. Ford denies this and announces that he will run with old friend Melvin Laird heading his election campaign committee. Sen. Edward Kennedy, on the other hand, whose wife is also not well, announces that under no circumstances will he represent the Democratic Party in the 1976 Presidential race. SOM OH become the if worlds leading oil producer, ousting the U.S. from its historic number one position. Last year Soviet oil fields Party sources, however, produced an average of 9,160,000 barrels a day. The U.S. produced 8,830,000 barrels a day he will. They explain that George Wallace, "Scoop" Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Morris Udall, Jimmy Carter, Fred Harris and the also-ran- s, including Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, and Ed Muskie, will fragment the Democratic Party and that Kennedy is the partys 1976 In the war. MIIOSY mnm you now, on the average, buy the least expensive houses, underground depots, and military .bases around Saigon they cap- new home? reared to think of the Presidency as a family possibility each playing opposite roles. in 1974, its fourth consecutive year of decline. Last year marked the first time since oil was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859 that the U.S. failed to lead the world in oil production. Most of the Soviet increase stems from its new oil in Western Siberia. 1001. 105-m- Home 16 most expensive homes single-fami- ly again the average are available in the Minneapo-lis-S- t. Paul area. Here's the list in ascending order of average selling prices in the naon car- m tion's and naval bases the U.S. had constructed in South Vietnam at fabulous expense. 17 most populous was compiled from It areas. statistics gathered in the first three months of 1975. From 1965 until last month when the South Vietnamese forces simply collapsed, the U.S. spent a staggering $140 billion on the war in Vietnam while the Soviet Union and China contributed a mere $4.22 billion in Seattle Francisco $40,900 43,900 44.200 45.400 46.500 47,100 48.500 48.800 48.800 50.400 50.500 51.200 51.800 53.500 54.300 55.300 Paul 57,300 St. Louis Denver Philadelphia Baltimore Miami Cleveland Chicago Houston military aid of all types, Detroit according to Pentagon, Dallas Los Angeles a National Secu- rity Study Memorandum Atlanta figures. Washington New York It is hard to believe, but these figures reveal that the U.S. outspent the Russians and the Although reasor.aon care will oe taken, raiaoe Seattle, Loan Bank Board. The military, air, CIA, and It's according to the Federal howitzers, and, of course, all the House, and Kennedy who was ptease address editorial contributions lo: Annies, Parade. part, was the will. final analysis that's why they lost the most Union and China in 11 years of war. In ware- riers, Presidential 733 Third Ave., New York, N.V. the wherewithal to fight. they lacked, for the What party. armored personnel own no matter material we supplied them. We provided the South Vietnamese as- M-- their how much 30 candidates. Ford who never in his wildest dreams thought of being President but now occupies the White fields have won on tured everything from rifles to giant cargo planes costing $5.15 million each. They took possession of jet fighters, tanks, helicopters, only cohesive force. He must run, and under the mounting pressure of his supporters, he will. So they say. Thus we have two poten- tial could have won but it also a war the South Vietnamese could never1 In one month the Communists captured nearly twice the total value of all the military equipment supplied to North Vietnam by the Soviet IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF THEM insist that puz- wrong operation was sistance transactions in history all to the JOAN KENNEDY DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT military Comm- ng the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C., rank3 as one of the U.S. began as a and burgeoned into the most confusing, controversial, and nation-cleaviwar in American history. It was a war we captured war booty. This vast arms turnover, reports Jim Morrell of largest it that unist-holding billion in previously 15- im o wM BETTY FORD 1, S - r ji THE tf fcC sad truth about the role in Indochina is The U.S. armies closed the ring around Saigon last month, a whopping $4 to $5 billion in U.S. -- supplied military hardware fell into their hands. All this in addition to some $2 iwA w Vietnam. and Vietcong Vietnamese w Chinese by 33 times in WAH BOITY the spoils. When the North '"5Bawrwiq; San is not responsible tor unsolicited material. |
