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...million, is growing by a million new people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security. " Nonetheless, some analysts see cause for hope-if action is taken in time. Among them is World Bank President Robert S. McNamara, who examined the status of the Malthusian threat and what can be done about it in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Excerpts...
...Sampson only cites the age-old argument about the "deterrent" effect of weapons to toy with its absurdity. The weapons companies' claim of merely selling to those in need or able to afford an "honest price" becomes even more painfully comic when Sampson shows how former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his successors turned a cold war military aid program into a high pressure export industry...
...escape the capital's stifling heat. The Secretary, who suffers from a chronically bad back arrived fatigued from his 13-hour flight. Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening his arms for the traditional Arab embrace with which he used to greet Henry Kissinger; he quickly checked himself when the very reserved American thrust forward his arm for a handshake...
...detail his disaffection with Harvard, its students, and especially its administration; he tells of being slowly but surely drawn first into sympathy with, and then active involvement in radical politics during the late '60s. He describes a famous scene outside Quincy House, when former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was surrounded by angry students and forced to speak briefly from the hood of a car before being led to safety by police. Although merely an interested spectator at that incident, Evans was a participant in the April 1969 occupation of University Hall, one of the last to enter the building...
...hard against a proposed $4 billion cut in Carter's defense budget request of $120.4 billion for fiscal 1978. But aside from that, Brown has turned out to be an excellent Pentagon advocate on the Hill, neither talking down to Senators and Representatives nor overwhelming them with facts, as McNamara used to do. Among other things, he moved quickly to reassure Congressmen in the face of warnings that the Soviet Union was rapidly achieving military superiority over the U.S. This might be Brown's most remarkable achievement so far. His confidence that America can maintain deterrence and the military balance...