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ROBERT A. MAHEU SPEECH (11/1/67) P. 5 HAD TO CONTRACT TO RECEIVE SUCH COMMUNICATIONS VIA HUGHES SATELLITES. 9. SINCE WE HAVE BEEN IN LAS VEGAS, THE ONLY ACROSS-THE- BOARD AGREEMENTS EVER TO BE SIGNED WITH NATO SINCE ITS INCEPTION, . . . WAS MADE WITH THE HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY . . . .FOR AN AIR-DEFENSE-NETWORK STRETCHING FROM THE NORTHERN TIP OF NORWAY TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF TURKEY. THIS AGREEMENT INVOLVED NEGOTIATIONS WITH NINE COUNTRIES, AND 12 FOREIGN CONTRACTORS . . . AND, OR COURSE, YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SOFT-LANDING ON THE MOON, BY THE SURVEYOR ?╟÷A HUGHES DESIGED AND HUGHES MANUFACTURED VEHICLE. THE SURVEYOR WAS SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL IN THAT IT PROVED CONCLUSIVELY TO THE WORLD THAT THE MOON WAS NOT MADE OF "GREEN CHEESE" . . . .BUT RATHER OF BASALTIC SAND, COMPARABLE TO THAT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAND CANYON .... LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE THE RESULTS OFM^NY YEARS OF CAUTIOUS AND CONSCIENTIOUS PLANNING ' . . ... . . . AND NOT THE CONSEQUENCE OF PRECIPITOUS MOVES. 10. MY DEAR FRIENDS .... IF WE CONTINUE BEING INTERESTED TO MAKING A CONTRIBUTION SO THAT THE RIGHT MESSAGES CAN BE COMMUNICATED TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, .... IF WE CONTINUE IN OUR DESIRE TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS IN OUR STRUGGLE TO BEAT RUSSIA IN THE SPACE AGE, ... IF WE CONTINUE TO BE INTERESTED IN OUR FIGHTING MEN IN VIET NAM AND MAKE WHATEVER MINUTE CONTRIBUTION WE CAN IN AN EFFORT TO BRING BACK HOME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THESE YOUNG GREAT AMERICANS THEN WE IN THE HUGHES ORGANIZATION PLEAD GUILTY TO THE CONTINUATION OF CARRYING OUT THE POLICIES OF A PERSON WE CONSIDER ANOTHER GREAT AMERICAN, "HOWARD HUGHES." #### V