Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promise. The lone military man, Army Major General Llamil Reston, who will be Interior Minister, shares Bignone's conviction that the armed forces must cooperate closely with labor and political leaders. Among the casualties of the reshuffle: Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez, an intellectual architect of the Falklands fiasco...
...have played in bringing it off. If Washington did organize Garcia's overthrow, then it would appear we have regressed back to the covert action days of the 1950s and 1960s. Such a policy gave Guatemala 28 years of military dictatorship and brought about the Bey of Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with the E. Howard Hunts and G. Gordon Liddys. But if U.S. involvement...
...David Packard of Hewlett-Packard, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense whose company derives 15% of its revenues from defense work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly to the Stealth bomber." Agreed Jones: "There's a real question of whether we can intelligently spend that much money that fast...
...houses complained that the house was too cold, and the heat was restored the day after it was initially turned off. Another heating "experiment" also became a fiasco when the weather started approaching that of Boston's winter warmth...
...General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks for two weeks. The Department of Transportation wanted to stay...