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...Washington has been a difficult town for David Packard," Defense Secretary Melvin Laird remarked recently. "He thinks there should be solutions for these problems. Often there can't be. And every time he looks up, there's another problem coming across his desk." Last week Packard, Laird's Deputy Secretary of Defense, finally decided to give up problem solving for the Federal Government's biggest department and return to Hewlett-Packard Company, the $350-million-a-year electronics firm that he headed before he came to Washington...
...sent to bases in Iceland. He said that the Government had reached a verbal agreement with Iceland at that nation's request. By 1963, the Icelandic government accepted two married black servicemen into the country, and the number has now increased to about 40. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird could only plead that he had no control over previous administrations and that no such understandings now exist...
...Kissinger, in daily consultation with President Nixon, put together a high-level, high-pressure lobbying campaign that sent Cabinet members scrambling to the rescue of foreign aid. Secretary of State William Rogers pleaded with a hostile Senate Foreign Relations Committee to put the program back together. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned that the moment could not be worse for closing off the aid pipeline. From Bangkok, traveling Treasury Secretary John Connally chimed in. If aid is ended, he said, "all that we have done since World War II would go down the drain...
...were warning of a continuing Soviet arms buildup, Nixon said that he and Soviet leaders should be able to agree "that neither major power can get a decisive advantage over the other" so as to launch "a pre-emptive nuclear attack" or "engage in international blackmail." Defense Secretary Melvin Laird seemed to be arguing that the U.S.S.R. was seeking such an advantage when he told a press conference last week that the Soviet navy was building nuclear missile submarines at a rate that would enable it to match the U.S. Polaris submarine force by 1973-about a year ahead...
...reported to their governments last week the opinions they had formed during TIME'S Report on America News Tour. These economic leaders, brought to the U.S. by TIME, met and questioned many policymakers, including Treasury Secretary John Connally, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, and Senators Mike Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson and Jacob Javits. The businessmen then spent a morning discussing with TIME editors and correspondents their conclusions about the future...