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...Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense, said that the draft lottery was the first step towards a fairer draft, and that Nixon now "wants to move in the direction so that all young men are treated equally and fairly...
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird cut back $4 billion in the current fiscal year and stands to lose another $3 billion to $4 billion beginning July 1, leaving the Pentagon with about $73 billion to spend in fiscal 1971. Agriculture and the space program will also suffer a nasty pinch; only the Justice Department is likely to come out unscarred for the second year running. Says one Administration adviser: "There's only one Cabinet member who's sitting back smiling like Buddha, and that's John Mitchell. He got what he wanted, and he's about...
...Through its Christiana Securities Co., the family can vote a dominant 29% of Du Font's common stock, and eleven of the 25 directors are either Du Ponts or married to Du Ponts. Many of the adult members of the Du Pont family, and the related Copeland and Laird clans, are spotted through the company...
Washington seems to have been alerted for the first time by letters mailed on April 2, 1969, by Viet Nam Veteran Ronald Ridenhour. As Army Chief of Staff, Westmoreland ordered a full Pentagon investigation on April 23. As a result of that investigation, Laird says, he personally informed President Nixon in August that "we would have to court-martial Galley for murder-and the President told me to go right ahead." On Sept. 5, the charges were announced, but with no mention of how many killings were involved. It was not until November that journalists learned of the magnitude...
...allay Western Europe's concern on that point, Rogers assured his continental colleagues that Washington would honor its commitments abroad. So did Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Despite Senator Mike Mansfield's renewed call for the withdrawal of substantial numbers of the 300,000 American servicemen now in Europe, Laird pledged to maintain U.S. forces at their present level until at least mid-1971. To offset the departure of 6,000 Canadian troops, the British agreed to assign six additional combat brigades to Germany. Because NATO forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 on the crucial central front and would...