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...initially replied in typical Pentagon fashion: they produced a list that, according to congressional sources, suggested the abolition of one of the Army's 16 divisions and the scrapping of two tactical air wings, among other things. The list sounded like an example of what Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto had meant when he warned the public to doubt any statements from the armed services "that would lead you to believe they're going to be deprived of uniforms if they don't get everything they asked...
...install the fearsome rockets. The President will not decide until Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decides. And Weinberger will not decide until he gets some recommendations from a 15-member expert panel chaired by Charles Townes, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist. When will that be? "Nobody knows," says Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto. "These are enormously weighty things...
...years, it emphasized that money alone will not ensure a strong defense, and called for a national debate on just what the dollars should be used to buy. The Pentagon huffed that "the series turned out to be an editorial rather than a documentary." Even so, Pentagon Spokesman Henry Catto Jr. applauded CBS "for its seriousness of purpose...
...Dean Fischer, the State Department spokesman, it said that the U.S. "condemns" the air strike and that the attack "was in possible violation" of a 1952 U.S.-Israeli agreement under which American arms could be used only for defensive purposes. At the Pentagon, Assistant Secretary of Defense Henry E. Catto Jr. emphasized that "this was not an operation that involved U.S. forces. It came as a thunderous surprise to the U.S. Government...
...camp in Laos. The Central Intelligence Agency then trained and organized a group of Laotian mercenaries-many of them Hmong hill tribesmen-who crossed the border from Thailand and got close enough to take more definitive photos on the ground. The sad conclusion, according to Defense Department Spokesman Henry Catto: "There is no evidence that would lead us to believe there are Americans being held in Laos...