Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group has cited Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's recent testimony before the senate Foreign Relations Committee as particularly convincing evidence that the U. S. will again bomb North Vietnam...
...with the recent blitz of air operations against North Viet Nam and the implicit threat of more. U.S. troops have been coming out of Viet Nam at the rate of about 12,500 a month. By mid-1971, according to public pronouncements by both Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, nearly all U.S. troops will be out of combat. North Vietnamese infiltration into the South totaled 50,000 men in the first seven months of 1970, according to the U.S. command in Saigon. Enemy troops are now infiltrating into South Viet...
...weapons. But the shift in emphasis came slowly, and so did the money to finance it. Last week, however, the alliance's foreign and defense ministers decided at a meeting in Brussels to concentrate still harder on the vital small change elements of their defenses. In what Melvin Laird called "the most important [NATO meeting] in my tenure as Secretary of Defense," they adopted a $1 billion program for the 1970s that will dramatically upgrade Europe's conventional, non-nuclear forces...
...Laird's suggestion, military research experts from 13 nations began work last February on an answer to the Soviet challenge. The result is a thick document called A.D. 70 (for Alliance Defense, 1970). It concluded that NATO possesses "adequate nuclear forces," but that its conventional military strength "is less satisfactory"-quite an understatement in view of the Warsaw Pact's 2-to-l edge in troop strength. The report recommended and the members unanimously approved: > Concrete hangars for NATO aircraft. Having watched the destruction of Egypt's air force by Israel during the Six-Day War, both...
...Pull out. Considering Europe's current prosperity, the NATO pledge was still rather modest. Nevertheless, it reversed a longstanding lack of interest in the alliance that has worried U.S. defense planners for some time, and Washington was quick to show its gratitude. Laird pledged to seek a substantial increase in the U.S. defense budget for fiscal 1972-perhaps as much as $3 billion-part of which would benefit NATO. Perhaps more important, he promised that the U.S. would not reduce its present 285,000-man troop level before the summer of 1972. To underscore that pledge, Secretary of State...