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384. Letter From the Director of the Bureau of the Budget ( Gordon ) to the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( Webb )

actions, would provide us with better information on which to base judgment than that developed to date. The actions which we suggest, based on the preliminary information currently available, are as follows: 1. Reduce the tracking stations at Kano, Nigeria, and Zanzibar in Africa to standby status in view of the termination of the Mercury series of flights and the stated NASA plan to place primary reliance on other stations for the Gemini flights. 2. Defer the planned personnel increase at the Johannesburg, South Africa, Minitrack station until FY 1965 or later, retaining the station at its p…