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...Washington Star's Military Reporter Richard Fryklund wrote that service morale is low, and that "most military people believe Mr. McNamara does not understand people, that he is not interested in people . . . Mr. McNamara seldom visits the troops where they work and live ... It is rare that he sends a 'well done' to his troops ... A Defense Secretary with no heart is being equated with a Defense Department with no heart...
...abrupt change in our outlook," said Noyes at the spacious desk that cautious, pipe-smoking Ben McKelway used to occupy, but some major tinkering is already under way. Noyes is looking for skilled interpretive writers to back up Political Writer Mary McGrory and Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund (TIME, April 12). With only one foreign correspondent-Newbold Noyes's Paris-based brother Crosby-the Star cannot hope to match the 14 foreign correspondents who write for the Post, but the new editor plans to develop a team of "regional specialists." To match the Post's editorial-page lineup, Noyes...
Search for a Leak. The Star played Fryklund's story on Page One under the headline AIR FORCE HITS TFX PROBE TACTICS. The story irritated Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, the subcommittee chairman, since he felt it reflected on his staff...
This time McNamara did not call the FBI, but summoned his Air Force inspector general, burly, crew-cut Lieut. General W. H. ("Butch" I Blanchard. The general swept right into the leak-seeking game by calling Reporter Fryklund to his office and asking him point-blank who gave him the memo. Fryklund stood firm upon his obligation to protect his sources, so Blanchard unleashed his plainclothes investigators...
Descending upon Pentagon officials, the probers flashed identification cards and snapped out a series of questions: Are you acquainted with Richard Fryklund? When did you last see Fryklund? Have you seen the Air Force memorandum in question? Did you give it to Fryklund? Etc. After hearing the answers, the interrogators gravely asked each person questioned to sign an affidavit swearing that he had told the truth. That done, the inspector general's men capped the ordeal by whipping out still another document -this one labeled in bold letters, CONSENT