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Here are former Secretary of Defense John S. McNamara (thank you for that skirmish in Southeast Asia), former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 (thank you for those secret bombings in Cambodia and that stable dictator in Persia) and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown supporting the AWACs sale. As Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pointed out in the Senate debate last week, Brown had written a letter to Congress on May 9, 1978--at the time of the debate over the sale of F-15 fighter planes--which stated that F-15s would "not be equipped with...
...Administration also won the backing of 16 former defense and national security officials-including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert McNamara and Melvin Laird- who gathered at the White House to proclaim their support. Said Kissinger: "I believe the sale is essential for the peace process in the Middle East." The Administration hopes to pick up Jimmy Carter's public support after he returns from the Sadat funeral...
...cult of the expert, checked solely by conscience--if, indeed, by that--and not by politics, spread far beyond the borders of New York. Though Progressivism made the most political hay of numerical efficiency, the obsession did not die with the movement. Robert McNamara's body counts, and indeed the entire Vietnam experience in this country, probably did more than anything to prove the futility of excessive reliance on the numbers--on the experts. Robert Moses, Doctor Moses, as he liked to be called, had all the numbers, all the plans; the political mud was never slung...
...White House has let Clausen understand in no uncertain terms that the Administration will be watching to see if the World Bank can become a more effective conduit for U.S. foreign aid. Dismayed with the liberal image that the bank acquired during the 13-year presidency of Robert S. McNamara, the White House has reluctantly agreed to provide money promised by the last Administration but at a slower pace...
Even so, Clausen may still have to back off from at least some of the super-generous loan proposals made by his predecessor. Before he stepped down last month, McNamara, 65, set in motion an ambitious program to expand World Bank lending, already at $12 billion annually, to a full $30 billion by 1985, Raising that much money may simply be beyond the World Bank's powers without huge infusions of new capital from...