Word: pentagon
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...seemed appropriate that the slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several civilian clergymen from San Francisco -after an inspection tour of the stockade at the Presidio-bluntly suggested that military chaplains may have outlived their usefulness...
WHEN its best friends begin to fault it, the Pentagon is obviously in perilous straits. Last week Texas Democrat George Mahon, a longtime supporter of the military as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, rose in the House to complain that the Pentagon's "many mistakes" had created a public "lack of confidence." Mahon's old ally Mendel Rivers, head of the Armed Services Committee, grabbed a microphone to protest. "This is the way to tear down the military," he shouted. "Keep on saying it, and the enemies of the military will love...
...only is the Pentagon coming in for rising criticism, but its civilian suppliers as well. Congress and the public are deeply concerned about the spiraling costs of new weapons systems and their frequent failure to perform up to expectations. High prices and technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both...
...Johnson's budget director, assumes that there will be a transition of two years or so from a war economy to something close to pre-Viet Nam conditions. Were a cease-fire to begin this July and troop withdrawal in January, Schultze figures that the current $79 billion Pentagon budget could decline by $7 billion in 1970 and by $13 billion in 1971. Since about one-third of the demobilized G.I.s would be going back to school, the labor force would have to absorb only some 600,000 new members-not enough to pose serious employment problems...
...transition would span at least several quarters, partly because plants making strategic stockpile items will have to keep running full tilt for a while to rebuild war-depleted inventories. Then, after Pentagon stocks were replenished, about 225,000 jobs at munition factories would be in jeopardy. New contracts-and the task of replacing some of the 2,690 planes and 2,608 helicopters destroyed in Viet Nam-would continue to keep aerospace firms fairly busy. They would not lose much more than $2 billion of their current $9 billion-a-year military aircraft business, and they might lose a great...