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...into shooting. "Thinking about national security today," Foster insisted, "must include some explicit analysis of many factors that 50 years ago probably would have been neglected." Fulbright was unmollified, echoing his disquiet over the Pentagon's influence on U.S. foreign policy that expanded under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "What you are really saying," Fulbright retorted, "is that the civilian heads of the Department of Defense are assuming the responsibility for making political judgments all over the world...
...current alliance of New Leftists and black militants; another charges that the rash of violence on U.S. campuses is Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap." A comic-strip hero called Super Square participates in such right-wing victories as the resignation of Defense Secretary McNamara and the downfall of Che Guevara. His identity, however, is a mystery. Square asks: "Is he Al Capp? Bill Buckley? Joey Bishop...
...McNamara, before leaving the Cabinet, recommended Vance as his successor, and the President probably agreed with the choice. But last summer Vance was forced to abandon his twelve-hour work days at the Pentagon because of an irksome back ailment. He returned to law practice in Manhattan, although repeated summonses to Washington for troubleshooting missions scarcely left him time for his legal career. The grueling Paris negotiations will tax Vance's health even more severely than his previous assignments. Despite the orthopedic brace he wears, his back is often so painful that he cannot bend to tie his shoelaces...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was not half so impressed. Along with nearly a thousand other large and small military facilities, Springfield was ordered closed as an economy move; its weapons development and pilot production were to be turned over to other, armories or private companies. Last week with a symbolic burst from four M-14 rifles, one of the last weapons developed at the armory, McNamara's order went into effect...
When Springfielders heard about McNamara's order three years ago, armory employees raised a $10,000 fund to lobby against the Pentagon decision...