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...asked Senator J. William Fulbright, does the Pentagon need to spend American taxes to learn the black arts of Congolese witch doctors? Fulbright's query momentarily hexed Dr. John S. Foster Jr., the Defense Department's director of research, into an admission of ignorance. But in releasing Foster's testimony before a closed session of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon last week righted the record. Witchcraft, it contended, is part of modern warfare: the $522.50 study analyzed the key role of Congolese sorcerers in the 1964 Simba uprising, when U.S. aircraft dropped Belgian paratroopers...
...Fulbright was taking potshots at the Pentagon's $660 million military-science research program, the $80 billion defense budget was getting a discouraging reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
Rising Pressures. Impatience mounted. In Washington, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright and members of his committee urged Johnson to accept Warsaw and "not quibble about a site." The British grumbled about U.S. "fussing." Johnson clung to his insistence that a site should satisfy four requirements?adequate communications, access for U.S. allies, thorough press coverage, and a "fair" atmosphere for both sides...
...President, "would really bring chaos to the Government"; at the angry meeting with House leaders, he had said that the country in fact needed a budget of more than $200 billion. "I am the coach," he protested at one point-referring to Mills, who has replaced Senator William Fulbright as his chief nemesis-"and I send in signals for a pass to my quarterback and he runs a play off tackle...
Ralph McGill and Senator Fulbright are faithful representatives of the South: the two men, as well as the region, suffer some kind of moral schizophrenia, though in the case of the publisher and the Senator, they represent this malady in opposite directions. They reflect the most unenviable aspects of the heritage of the political culture of the South. Jingoism and racism. Each man has been able to overcome one of these burdens in his public life, but not both...