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...Peggy Mc Namara, Harvard University Police Department spokesperson, said the suspect was sighted soliciting $.85 on Cambridge Street in early January...
...National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...
...assignments, Martin has not hesitated to challenge other officials' views. A typical cable from Thailand would begin: "While Ambassador X may see the situation in his area in his own way, the realities indicate ..." Martin even took on Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary, Robert McNamara, attacking Mc-Namara's plan to slash military aid to Thailand and shift it to Viet Nam. Martin's persistent arguments eventually won Johnson over to his side. Martin subsequently negotiated the use of Thai bases by the U.S. Air Force, now the largest American military presence in Southeast Asia...
...favorite that has lost influence is Systems Analysis, the home of the young civilian experts known as McNamara's whiz kids. To the uniformed chiefs, the decline of Systems Analysis was the ultimate symbol of the military's renewed prestige. The office was viewed in that light because Mc-Namara gave it the responsibility for the first and most important review of goals and plans originated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the course of that review, Systems Analysis was often able to originate policy. Under Laird's table of organization, the three military services will get first crack...
...bearer of such news. He has long prided himself on his hardline, no-nonsense approach to military affairs. He developed a considerable expertise on the subject as a member for 14 years of the House Appropriations subcommittee, which oversees all defense expenditures. Twice, in fact, he taxed Robert Mc-Namara with underestimating costs in Viet Nam and produced his own calculations, which McNamara rejected. On both occasions, Laird turned out to be right...