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- electric
test train,
the
DOT Office of High-Speed Ground Transportation
has scheduled a news
media run Wednesday morning, May 24, on the 21-mile test track between
Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey.
This train,
which is equipped with research test
- Folder, "Volume I, Documentary Supplements, News Releases," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 3
-
to the· total
transportation
picture
in North
America
and to the role
of air transport.
- 3 What I will
--That
ask
of you
you be aware
of
--that
you be aware.of
new technology;
of
--and
that
your actions
today
is
quite
the
desires
- DCT and
of the
Part
is
the
Development
the
of New Conununi ties
Federal
response
Act· of 1968.
New Cornmuni ties
provides
for
developers
a revolving
fund
Act necessitates
the
cooperation
ments,
the
Department
18,· 1968
- ) along the Israeli-Eg-.rp__Q.,a n border in Sinai. Secretary
General U Thant promptly COffiPiled with the Egyptian request.
In these new circumstances, President Johnson sent a letter to
Prime Minister EslL~ol of Israel on May 17 expressing sympathetic
- ...
THE WHITS: HOUSE:
WASHINC:,TON
•• August
MEMORANDUM
FOR
12, 1965
Honorable Alan Boyd
• Under Secretary
of Commerce.
for Transportation
•Department
of Commerce
In accordance
with our discussion
Friday morning,
August 6, 1965
- Kuchuk (Turkish-Cypriot) as Vice President.
During the following three years the new Republic prospered
economically, but the mutual suspicions of the two communities
increasingly interfered with the orderly working of a very
complex system of government
-
concluded
lines.
flag
allocations
considerable
a new conference
The conference
the objection
listed
arrangements
Examiner's
delay following
agreement that
the new pooling
arrangements
lines
Affairs'
involved
Affairs'
office
procedure
-
considerably
Secretary
easier
in
to the new Depart
made the transition
than it might otherwise
have
been.
Besides
personnel
and personnel
from Mr. Boyd's Bureau at Commerce, functions
were transferred
to the Department
~Agency, Coast Guard
- . 3
The Arms Control and Disarmam.ent Agency (ACDA) was quick
to respond to the new impetus toward Latin American d e n u c l e a r i
zation.
In a background paper dated October 25, 1962, the
Agency recommended that the United States support
- .
Faithfully yours.
/!2!/JI
Contents
Pog•
vii
Foreword---------------------------------------------··---··--------·Organization,Department of Transportation -----------------------------
Chapter I THE NEW DEPARTMENT
-
gressive step against a corrupt and inefficient monarchy and
hoped that the new revolutionary leaders might be able to
reach an accommodation with Israel which would bring stability
to the area.
There was a reciprocal interest in the United
States
- -building at one stage or
another.
By stretching definitions to include Greece, Turkey
and Israel, all can be described as traditional societies .in
transition toward new patterns of modern nationhood.
Through
out the area, the "warring sects" of great
- --the
consumers
also continued to rise--120
million more mouths every year.
vidual in the developing
in 1957-58.
countries
number
new humans every minute;
The result
was little better
indi
off in 1966 than he was
conditions
of per
over the period
- . Equal opportunity
programs
f. Organization
for emergency preparedness
3. New administrative
elements
a. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
, b. Urban Mass Transit Administration
1.
B.
Programs of the Department of Transportation
1. Highway
-
their
countries
cou:itries
improvem,mt
may be directed
school system
than !laving a well articulated
p!'ojects
of new economic
objective
as in the
may be
policy,
in the smaller
in agriculture
toward
in
establishing
a
and this may be more
natic :ial
- ----
-eONri-M 3Ii
ITIM>
-
11-
Page
Communist China and the Proliferation
Problem . ..........................................
15
Proposed Approach to New Soviet Leaders ..........
18
Effects of the Vietnam Wa r .........................
18
Disarmament
-
descript~.ons
The major programs
annually
union specialist,
)
the United State
recipient.
contractors,
and doctors.
3
intimately
smaller
ones,
schools,
new·
are an exciting
university
in the economic
story.
hundreds
!
of peo~le,
Moreover
- -85)
IV.
ORGANIZATION AND WORK'OF THE AGENCY
A.
Administration and Structure
When Congress created the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) in September 1961,_!/
it took a step without precedent; it assigned to a
new agency
- , or "collateral" measures.
Characteristically, the
first major new initiative of the Johnson Administration - a
proposal to freeze strategic nuclear delivery vehicles - emerged
during discussion of an ACDA attempt to revise the first stage
of the U.S. treaty
-
for
Service
assistance
Commission
from 6ther
and General
agencies,Services
i.e.,
Admin
istration;
2
6.
A tentative
Several
days later,
des~gnated·Vice
.of
A~iral
_ ___--·---------...
- ------
----
Charles
the new task
L .. Schultze,
Task
- contracts which the Board determines do not_have a direct
and immediate connection with the national defense. Contracts and
subqontracts for the sale of new durable productive equipment al'e
partially exempt from renegotiation, and contracts and subcontracts
-
•
Bureau
of Equal
pre-construction
Ohio Department
parties
o.f Ohio and the B:PR chose
On December
which called
pre-nward
new proposal
by the proper
o.f the Director
out other
for
the Ohio plan.
requested
to substitute
"pre-award"
18
- the key determinant of the leyel of consumer demand·for
transit
(and more important than price).
While th~ purchase of new
equipment through mass transit grants may help achieve service
·improvementsin these area~, it wilLnot do so automatically
- in the co.i;r.itment or e.n 1~.ct-e~sing nu::iber of personnel tor this
pUX1)ose. Bo~"l 1:.w· e.nd :-:Ewhave created new offices
.,
intercover:l:lCntp.l
rclo.tions.
with responsibility
for
As DOT encoui·a.gos J:10rccOJnprchcnsiveti·3..""Ls-
porta:~io:i
-
a new set of program objectives which could perhaps be
achieved in a reasonable time period, say 10-20 years.
In early 1964 an effort was initiated to develop a
formal statement of objectives which after many false
starts finally led to the establishment
- testing in 1961.^
Proposed Approach to Soviet Leaders
In a memorandum of November 23, 1964, to the Committee of
Principals, ACDA Director Foster submitted an outline of sub
jects for discussion with the new Soviet leaders who had recently
^See