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However, it now appears unlikely that the History Department will submit a proposal to the C.E.P. before the end of the year. At present, several History tutors are drawing up a memorandum for discussion by the full Department...
Even in his wanderings, Bowles managed to make himself heeded. Last August he surfaced with a persuasive memorandum suggesting that the U.S. cut off foreign aid to nations that "lack the competence, organization and will" to use it intelligently. He also sold the President two conclusions he formed from observing the work of U.S. embassies in Africa. Asia and Latin America: ambassadors' tours of duty should be considerably lengthened (they had been averaging only 17 months), and their responsibilities should be broadened to cover U.S. aid. military and information programs in their bailiwicks...
...March, when Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara got sore because a Senate subcommittee planned to investigate the multibillion-dollar TFX fighter plane contract (TIME, March 22; April 5). Then the Washington Star's Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund got hold of a behind-the-scenes (but unclassified) Air Force memorandum detailing the moans of Air Force experts who felt they had been cruelly treated by the subcommittee's staff. The memo complained that staff interrogators' "oral abuse . . . harsh language . . . threats . . . rapid-fire questions . . . emotional rantings" had so unnerved the doughty men of the Pentagon that one collapsed from...
McNamara got sizzling angry. It wasn't that he "doubted the truth" of the memo, he told a purpling Senator McClellan. But he himself, said McNamara. had "done everything possible to bottle up what is a very damaging memorandum." He had directly ordered that it be locked in a Pentagon safe. And now here it was on the front pages. "This has happened to me 15 or 20 times in the last 26 months." rumbled McNamara. "I became so upset about the situation that on several occasions I have discussed it with the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover...
Descending upon Pentagon officials, the probers flashed identification cards and snapped out a series of questions: Are you acquainted with Richard Fryklund? When did you last see Fryklund? Have you seen the Air Force memorandum in question? Did you give it to Fryklund? Etc. After hearing the answers, the interrogators gravely asked each person questioned to sign an affidavit swearing that he had told the truth. That done, the inspector general's men capped the ordeal by whipping out still another document -this one labeled in bold letters, CONSENT