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...Washington has been a difficult town for David Packard," Defense Secretary Melvin Laird remarked recently. "He thinks there should be solutions for these problems. Often there can't be. And every time he looks up, there's another problem coming across his desk." Last week Packard, Laird's Deputy Secretary of Defense, finally decided to give up problem solving for the Federal Government's biggest department and return to Hewlett-Packard Company, the $350-million-a-year electronics firm that he headed before he came to Washington...
...months at the Pentagon, Packard handled most of the management while Laird, a former U.S. Representative, concentrated on the political angles. As former boss of one of the biggest U.S. defense contractors, Packard was in a good position to make quick and usually accurate judgments on Pentagon procurement policies. Under his scrutiny, development of the B-l strategic bomber and the F-15 fighter has proceeded with unusually few fumbles...
Delegations from 16 states marched in the demonstration. Packard said different contingents in the Coalition--high school women and gay women, for example--marched separately. A number of men also joined the march...
...congressmen met the demonstrators. Packard said the women resented that the legislators were almost all male. "Men make the laws that put down women," she said...
...Packard said that about three busloads and several cars of marchers came from Boston. The van carrying students from Harvard and Radcliffe broke down, but a contingent from the University Action Group reached Washington...