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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose that you have already read the letter of 170 retired American generals and admirals.* I have read it myself, and I very much approve of that letter. Those generals have already retired, but they are concerned and that means that the situation is indeed not tranquil. I have said this to a number of foreign friends: the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union and the constant development of their strategic weapons means that we can say that the Soviet Union is already on a par with the U.S. The Soviet military budget takes up around 20% of the gross...
...open letter, warning that the Soviets were "heading for superiority, not parity, in the military arena," ran a full page in the New York Times last week and was signed by 178 retired generals and admirals. Among them: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations; General Albert C. Wedemeyer, China theater commander in World War II; Major General George J. Keegan Jr., former Air Force chief of intelligence. *The CIA estimates it at more like 11% to 15% of G.N.P. *A reference to Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, and three other high officials who sought...
...Despite the fact that CBS required no special education to qualify for the job and his colleagues did not take kindly to the title, Harris insisted on being called "Doctor." Then, two weeks ago, the sky fell in on "Doctor Bob." The network learned Bob Harris through an anonymous letter that Harris had no more formal training than an Etruscan fulgurator and had lied about his degrees. In spite of a stream of protests from loyal listeners, he was fired...
Last week's Chinese-style wall posters and letter to former President Richard M. Nixon may be symptoms of a rift among the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, club officers agreed last week...
Club vice president Kenneth G. Lucero '80 and secretary Nancy E. Achin '81 last Monday sent President Nixon a personal letter asking him not to accept the club's invitation to speak here in the spring. Lucero said yesterday the adverse publicity that followed the club's invitation "could only hurt the club...