Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, the Air Force slapped on a tight security blackout. Since the plane is crammed with the very latest navigational and other electronic gear, the U.S. did not want to let the enemy know whether it fell over the North or in Communist-held portions of Laos. The Pentagon confirmed that the second F-l 11 crashed in Thailand after what the Air Force described as "an in-flight" emergency; both of its crew members parachuted to safety in the F-lll's detachable escape module...
...coalesced in Manhattan two months ago around a coterie of activist hippies, all in their late 20s and early 30s. "The YIP is a party-like the last word says-not a political movement," argues the East Village's Abbie Hoffman, who last fall tried to levitate the Pentagon (TIME Oct. 27, 1967). Says Yippie Leader Ed Sanders, 28, of the Fugs rock group: "It's the politics of ecstasy...
...question is still why, with more than half a million well-trained troops, abundant supplies and the greatest concentration of firepower in history, Westmoreland was not able to achieve greater success. His generalship can ultimately be assessed only by the requests and equivocations that for now are sealed in Pentagon filing cabinets. Strategy aside, however, his clearest single failure was not to have built the South Vietnamese army into a respectable fighting force. His deputy and possible successor, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 53, has made ARVN his principal concern for the past year...
...appointment must be approved by the Senate, and some time before he enters his new Pentagon office in July, Westmoreland will be pressed to explain to congressional committees how and why the U.S. design for Viet Nam has fallen so far short of its original expectations-and what should be done next...
...seeing that he gets from one meeting to another. Curtis Gans, 30, a former United Press International reporter, is the chief tactician at the grass-roots level and the most important of the Mc-Carthyites in Wisconsin today. Seymour Hersh, 30, still another former newsman (he covered the Pentagon for the Associated Press), is press secretary, speechwriter-and an unexcelled master of profanity. A score of others do everything from dispersing funds to researching issues, but none of them can yet be considered part of the inner circle...