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Aioninflationary means of obtaining the money needed to buy more arms might be to free funds by cutting the Defense Department's fat. Though Chairman Jones has stressed that it is "just plain wrong" to think that "somebody can tap a 'mother lode' by issuing an order to get more efficient overnight," he has admitted that "our feet should be held to the fire to be more efficient...
...total annual cost of the programs that the experts have cited tops $30 billion, and even these would not exhaust the Pentagon's shopping list. Yet this sum already exceeds what a 5% military budget boost would yield. Chairman...
...gets into an airplane and he just doesn't know how how turn toward the passenger compartment," says a senior aide about General David C. Jones. Indeed, during his frequent trips around the U.S. and to many parts of the globe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff invariably takes charge of the plane's controls...
That agreement ended a deadlock that had developed when Carrington, as chairman of the conference, two weeks earlier put forth a constitutional plan requiring compensation for all dispossessed landholders. Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Salisbury's biracial government, immediately accepted it, but Mugabe and Nkomo raised a number of objections. The guerrilla leaders were particularly incensed at the idea of asking Zimbabwe's blacks to buy back lands that they believe were stolen by white pioneers in the 1890s...
Advice for NATO-and a warning to Hua's critics back home On a dingy street in a working-class arrondissement of Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mayor Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second floor of the newly repainted Hotel de Godefroy. There they peered briefly into Room 16, where nearly 60 years ago the late Chou En-lai met with fellow Chinese students to thrash out many of the ideas that led eventually to the Communist takeover of the world's most...