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...respective services. The council would be headed by a Joint Staff Chairman, who would be principal military adviser to the President and the Secretary of Defense. ¶Individual services would maintain their identity but would be subordinate to three separate commands: a Strategic Command, responsible for the strategic missions of all-out nuclear war; a Tactical Command, responsible for all limited war operations; a Defense Command, responsible for all continental defense missions...
...lost. A onetime history professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, bright and energetic George McGovern in 1956 became the first Democrat in 20 years to be elected to high office in his state. His views on agriculture match Kennedy's: he favors high price supports, fat acreage cuts, and an all-out food-for-peace program. A second possibility for the job-and one eagerly promoted by such farm-state influences as Stuart Symington and Hubert Humphrey -was Missouri Farmer Fred V. Heinkel, 62, who for 20 years has been president of the important Missouri Farmers Association, the biggest statewide...
...which led to such inappropriate questions as "How does one apply the Sermon on the Mount to foreign policy?" This failure to understand the difference between public and private morality, argues Murray, leads to the disastrously false alternatives that often characterize U.S. foreign or military policy, e.g., sentimental pacifism or all-out atomic holocaust. Murray believes that there is morally valid territory between these extremes, that war may be legitimate in the defensive repression of injustice, and that the concept of limited war has moral significance. In general, says Murray, Americans should learn from the natural law tradition that "policy...
...population as a whole. But the new situation of Catholics in the U.S. is much more than figures. The church of 50 years ago was largely a church of immigrants, whose concern was to protect and build their minority religion in a Protestant land while showing their fellow Americans what all-out patriots they were. Today, an increasing number of well-educated and theologically sophisticated young Catholics are beginning to take part in what Father Murray calls "building the city"-contributing both to the civic machinery and the need for consensus beneath...
...away in rare interservice harmony -putting together a book. The officers were the members of the Defense Department's new Strategic Target Planning Group, and their book was a bulky, top-secret volume containing data on all important Soviet targets and detailed plans for hitting them in case of all-out nuclear...