Word: laird
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...bargaining table what you are unable or unwilling to win on the battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly advocated military pressure to force the communists to comply with the bargain...
...Although Laird and two of his successors, Elliot Richardson and James Schlesinger, testified last week before a Senate committee that some American POWs may have been left behind in Indochina, there is no evidence that Kissinger was callous toward their fate. His critics may be justified in attacking his bureaucratic methods, but they have no reason to impugn his motives. As he pointed out in his Senate testimony last week, there were no reliable reports of live Americans being held in violation of the accord. And he was also persuasive in charging that neither the public nor the Congress...
...reduced to 135, but that was not the issue last week. At hearings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, its chairman, Democratic Senator John Kerry, wanted to know whether the Nixon Administration had pulled out in full knowledge that U.S. servicemen were still being held prisoner. Melvin Laird and James Schlesinger, who both served as Secretary of Defense during 1973, said they thought...
...Mather Mayhem" was the culmination of a weekend of events designed to "bring the house together," said Mather House Master Jeff G. Williamson, who is also Laird Bell Professor of Economics...
COVER Photograph by Richard Laird -- F P G International, digitally altered by Joe Lertola