Word: pentagon
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Since he moved into the Pentagon's E Ring two months ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford has spent most of his working hours learning the intricacies of his new job and supervising a broad review of the nation's Viet Nam effort. Last week, in his first public address since he joined the Cabinet, Clifford sounded sanguine enough. "We concluded," he told the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan, "that the increased effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort-and in due time to begin...
Despite the parsimonious mood of Congress, McNamara is criticized for having failed to allot enough defense funds for long-range planning. For three years, the war has forced the Pentagon to skimp on research and development. Says John S. Foster Jr., 45, director of defense research and engineering: "If this trend were allowed to continue, our national technological position soon would be crippled...
...just burn the whole place down, and we can just move the capital to some place where they enforce the law!" Other officials feared that the march might trigger a repetition of the riots that singed Washington and 167 other cities after King's murder, and the Pentagon hastily added more than five brigades-some 30,000 troops-to the stand-by force, now 45,000 men strong, available for riot-control duty...
...most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
...this viewpoint has taken several directions: protests by Boston University students against acceptance of a $500,000 gift from a landlord who once had slum properties (he withdrew the gift); protests by Princeton students against the university's work for the Pentagon-allied Institute for Defense Analyses (trustees are considering disassociating from the institute). In the current uprising at Columbia, extremists forced the university to stop construction of a gymnasium on a location considered offensive to some people in neighboring Harlem (see EDUCATION...