Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON-A special Pentagon report said yesterday that climinating the ROTC program would decrease civilian influence within the national defense system...
...news conference the Pentagon's man-power chief, Roger T. Kelley, urged a careful digesting of the report by university and college faculty members...
...resistance movement has spread far and wide. The Pentagon has just announced that it will stop serving beef stew in military mess halls next year because it costs too much to prepare. Instead, troops will get more hamburger or meatballs (which they prefer anyway). In another move prompted by price increases, President Nixon last week asked Congress to raise social security benefits by 10% and to provide for automatic increases in the future geared to the cost of living...
Despite Laird's opposition, conservatives on the committee wrote the 60-day provision into the bill. Under severe pressure from their constituents to "do something about campus radicals" they called for a Pentagon estimate of the "attitude" of the college along with the report about cooperation on military matters. The "attitude" sentence was struck out before the bill reached the floor of the House...
...tapping GI and high school anti-war sentiment. At Harvard, the organization is just beginning, with committees being formed in all the Houses. The plan is for a broad-based peaceful march on Washington, at this stage apparently similar in conception to the 1967 march on the Pentagon...