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...rebuttal, Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb later testified that defects crippled only about 21% of the Navy's missiles. Korb's estimate for useless Air Force missiles...
While investigators sought a clearer picture of the total waste in the disposal system, Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense, last week announced that he had sent an order to military inventory managers: stop sending material to the Defense Property Disposal Service...
...many military officials feel that the key difference is the enhanced patriotism among the nation's youth. "There's a return to the view that the military is an honorable profession," says Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb. Agrees U.S. Air Force Academy Director of Admissions Lieut. Colonel Larry Thacker: "With the Salvadors and Lebanons, young people are perceiving the threat to national security more. They are very much into dedication and commitment of service...
Brown's original hesitations about the policy seem valid, for there is a fundamental ambivalence involved in counterforce. Explains Lawrence Korb, director of defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The irony of this doctrine is that it could make war either more or less probable. The threshold may be easier to go over, but if you do, you may be able to put the genie back in the bottle. It is stoppable, but because it is, it also is more startable...
This summer, following tours of Russia, the U.S. and Japan, the short, thickset Szeryng has been cutting a wide swath on the music-festival circuit in Europe. At the end of the five-week-long Salzburg Festival, one critic declared Szeryng the "Hahn im Korb" (German equivalent for "cock of the walk") among all the soloists who had appeared...