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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed. The Air Force relies on a system called PAR (for precision-approach radar). Because it places decision making in the hands of the ground controller, it is not popular with airline captains. In the past 14 months, PAR systems have been abandoned by 14 major civilian airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Instrument Misguidance? | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...June 1967, Grant B. Cooper flew to Danang to win acquittal for a Marine sergeant charged with murdering a Vietnamese civilian. The boy's parents paid his fee, but the grizzled lawyer picked up the air fare. When somebody asked him why he went all the way to a battle zone halfway round the world, Cooper replied: "I've never defended a man in a military court before." Most probably he took on the Sirhan case-without pay-because he had never defended an accused assassin before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Priceless Defenders | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Civilian reservations about volunteer armed forces also focus on some fears that tend to dissolve upon examination. Some critics have raised the specter of well-paid careerists becoming either mercenaries or a "state within a state." Nixon, for one, dismisses the mercenary argument as nonsense. The U.S. already pays soldiers a salary. Why should a rise in pay-which for an enlisted man might go from the present $2,900 a year to as much as $7,300-turn Americans into mercenaries? Said Nixon: "We're talking about the same kind of citizen armed force America has had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE CASE FOR A VOLUNTEER ARMY | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Dull as Death. Last week's fuel theft story, which charged that some U.S. military and civilian officials in Thailand had been bribed and others had been careless in allowing at least 5.5 million gallons of aircraft and other fuels to slip out of government hands, surfaced more easily than most. Lawrence Knutson, one of A.P.'s regional Washington desk hands, got a tip from a friend and turned to the team for help in checking it out. Team Member Gaylord Shaw phoned his sources at the Government Accounting Office, learned that GAO was already investigating the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wire Services: Beyond Bang-Bang Bulletins | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...short of the Pentagon have any authority to determine a reaction to changes in the ROTC programs which might be voted by the Harvard faculty. It is almost literally true that the negotiation of terms for ROTC units to be present on host institution compuses is handled by the civilian heads of the military departments. Just how far the Secretary of the Army, Mr. Resor, will allow institutions to go on eroding and vitiating Army ROTC programs on their campuses is open to conjecture. Although the mood of the three military departments is described as conciliatory and reasonable, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for ROTC at Harvard | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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