Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration used such claims in arguing for continued development of the Safeguard ABM system to protect U.S. Minuteman missile sites. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird urged Congress to authorize one more ABM installation (three are under construction) and give the President the choice of locating it near the nation's capital or a Minuteman complex-depending on the outcome of U.S.-Soviet arms talks...
...deception, sometimes deliberate, sometimes unintentional, has not ended. Two weeks ago, at a press conference called to justify the incursion into Laos, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr. displayed a hunk of the pipeline that carries gas from North Viet Nam down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They implied that it had been seized by the South Vietnamese during the current drive into Laos. Last week the Pentagon admitted that the piping had actually been brought back by South Vietnamese commandos after an earlier, unannounced raid. It "probably would have been better," Laird acknowledged...
WHEN Lam Son 719, the invasion of Laos, began early last month, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird predicted that there would be "some tough days ahead." Last week the Communists made good on that prediction-with a vengeance...
...minute press conference at the Pentagon, Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr., a ranking member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that ARVN was racking up impressive kill ratios in Southern Laos and in Cambodia. Overall, the casualty totals for the first three weeks of the operation were, if ARVN figures are to be believed, 19,715 Communist dead v. 2,208 ARVN dead. U.S. casualties have been 40 killed and 34 wounded. Casualty rates aside, was ARVN stalled? No, said Vogt. The weeklong halt on Route 9 was a deliberate "pause" to give commanders a chance...
...suspect that she would not have survived at all without wheat germ and a Spiro Agnew voodoo doll. Still, it was worth it. Come graduation, I was, once again, numero uno, besieged by offers of $100,000-a-year partnerships from nine Wall Street accounting firms, invited by Melvin Laird to bring cost accounting back to the Pentagon, and asked to lunch at Nedick's by Ralph Nader, who wanted me to find out how much General Motors really makes. At 25 I was being mentioned in the press as the next Secretary of Defense-even the White House...