Word: hebert
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...retribution, powerful adversaries such as the House Armed Services Committee's F. Edward Hebert began to question McNamara's programs, this year launched a full-scale bombardment that threatened the secretary's previously excellent legislative record. Over McNamara's violent objections, the committee pushed through a 10% military pay raise instead of the 5% he had asked, blocked his proposal to merge the Army Reserve and the National Guard, and nearly upset his plan to close military bases...
Planes & Missiles. To placate his opponents, McNamara has used some of his precious time to learn statesmanship. Before he announced plans last week to create a new, highly trained 145,000-man Army backup force from existing Army Reserve and National Guard units, he conferred respectfully with Hebert's subcommittee, asked and got its approval-even though the new force will have almost the same effect as his previously rejected proposal to merge the Army Reserve and National Guard...
...servicemen's September paychecks. In another slap at McNamara, a House Armed Services Subcommittee disapproved by an 8-to-l vote the Pentagon's cost-cutting proposal to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard, supporting the argument of its chairman, Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, that the merger "would result in an immediate and serious loss in the combat readiness of the affected Reserve units." The House also passed and sent to the Senate a $1.7 billion supplementary military appropriations bill, which provides almost $100 million for U.S. bases in Viet Nam and surround...
Where It Hurt. So far this year, Rivers and one of his senior committee members, F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana, have successfully held up McNamara's latest proposals for reorganizing the armed forces reserves. He is fighting McNamara's bill for a $447 million military pay raise. Rivers thinks the hike ought to be nearly twice as much, and he scoffed at the Administration's claim that the Pentagon figure would be enough to "attract and retain adequate numbers and quality of personnel in the armed forces." Rivers said the statement was "ridiculous on its face...
...command post. The directive, which replaces the individual judgment by which officers have hitherto been allowed to operate, specifically forbids them to accept not only gifts and gratuities but that pillar of modern U.S. society, the expense-account lunch. "This thing is absurd," says Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert. "It means officers can't accept a Coke or a ham sandwich. It says in effect that an admiral can be bribed by a lunch." Cried an anguished aircraft-company representative: "It's an infraction of my civil rights...