Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference yesterday Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said that the raiders had found the P. O. W. camp vacated and had escaped without casualties...
...Laird said that he had recommended the alleged rescue operation-which he indicated the Defense Department had been secretly planning for months-when he learned recently that Americans were dying in the prisoner camps...
...American forces landed by helicopter at Song Tay, 23 miles west of Hanoi and found the camp abandoned. Laird said...
...action to disrupt the functioning of the U. S. military machine. Senators should begin a filibuster against all Administration appropriations bills now pending, whether military or not. In addition, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should begin immediately its longpostponed televised hearings on Administration policy in Vietnam and summon Nixon, Laird, Kissinger, Rogers, and Mitchell to give an account of their crimes...
Last spring the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill designed to bring a suit before the court challenging Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's right to wage undeclared war. By a 6-3 vote, the Justices brushed aside the effort of Massachusetts to bring the suit directly before them. The court majority apparently was swayed by Government arguments that Massachusetts lacked standing to bring suit on behalf of its citizens and that the issues involved too many potential political repercussions. In a passionate dissent, Justice William Douglas assailed the notion that the question was too political for the court to handle...