Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, if elected, he would "reassess the Viet Nam situation in light of the assistance that is required from the U.S." As the South Vietnamese army improved, he added, he would "move toward a systematic reduction in American troops." The pledge was hardly startling, since that has been the Pentagon's goal for some time...
...politically inspired exchange left in doubt the question of the U.S. troop level and of the course of the war it self. Clifford issued his denial of Laird's statement only at the President's orders. Pentagon officers naturally supported the Defense Secretary's statements. Yet other Administration sources suspect that both Laird and Humphrey may well be correct in their predictions that U.S. combat forces will be reduced...
...soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, vacationing near Goose Prairie, Wash., who first sent agley the Army's well-laid plans for dispatching reluctant reservists off to war. Douglas ordered the Pentagon to delay the departure to Viet Nam of 113 reservists attached to a supply company stationed at Fort Meade, Md. The group asked the full court to rule on the President's constitutional right to call them up in the first place. They will now remain in the U.S. until next month, when the court will determine whether it wants to hear their case...
...perhaps the prime movers behind the phenomenon. Not only do they sport beads and amulets that have supposed magical powers; they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman and his crew attempted to levitate the Pentagon last October-but much of the new concern with the arcane is a genuine attempt to find enrichment for arid lives...