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...fact, the testimony that the Senators have heard on the treaties so far has been overwhelmingly favorable. One of the few major witnesses to speak out against them has been Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; he worried last week that U.S. interests might be placed "in severe jeopardy" some day by the development of a "Torrijos-Castro-Moscow axis." Another retired admiral, former Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, called the canal a "colonialist anachronism" and praised the treaties as "an important step" in assuring U.S. access to the waterway...
...morality" of the Carter administration dismisses the horrors of Vietnam and Chile as characteristic of a bygone era. The U.S. is in the process of re-thinking and re-aligning itself to protect what remains of its global power. Admiral T.H. Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed this shift in testimony before the U.S. Senate...
...Kissinger met at the White House with Schlesinger, Colby, Haig, Moorer and Brigadier General Brent Scowcroft, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council staff. Say the Kalbs: "There was in their view a 'high probability' of some kind of'unilateral Soviet move.'" (This version seemed later to have been partly disputed by Schlesinger, who said that the probability of Soviet troops actually being on the move "was considered by some to be low.") At 11:30 p.m. Schlesinger ordered the first stage of the alert...
Publicity literature supplied by Rock- well International, a defense contractor, quotes Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as saying, "Without the B-1 to replace the aging B-52, the triad of our defenses will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal imbalance in the 1980-90 time period...
...week the 30-odd members of the U.S. Armed Forces Policy Council hear grim briefings from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on how much conflict there is in the world. Two weeks ago, there was a pleasant surprise. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer reported that as well as he could determine, during the week of Feb. 17 to 24 "virtually nobody is shooting at anybody anyplace." Moorer went on to declare that it was "more quiet around the world last week than at any time since I have been Chairman of the Joint...