Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-point program aimed at cutting the deficit by $3 billion in the year ahead. Principal features: a reduction in U.S. investment abroad, particularly in Western Europe, to save $1 billion; a cutback in U.S. loans to foreigners to save $500 million; scaled-down Government expenditures overseas-by the Pentagon, by heavily staffed U.S. embassies and by G.I.s and their dependents-to save $500 million; deferment for two years of all but what the President called "the most important, urgent and necessary" travel outside the Western Hemisphere to save $500 million of the $4 billion now being spent abroad each...
...Time to Say No." The indictment was handed down in Boston, where Justice Department officials say the antidraft "conspiracy" began as part of the October march on the Pentagon.* During a rally at the Arlington Street Church, Coffin collected draft cards, which he later turned over to the Justice Department; Ferber, who helped in the collection, also spoke on "A Time to Say No," urging draft evasion; Goodman, Raskin and Spock lent their names and efforts to sponsoring a nationwide draft-resistance movement, and were among the 2,000 signatories of a manifesto entitled "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority...
...accused "conspirators" appeared delighted with the opportunity to challenge the legitimacy of the war in the courts. "I suppose that the only way it can be tested is if people of some repute are arrested and tried," said Goodman. Coffin, the day before the Pentagon march, urged outright violation of the draft law: "If they are now arrested for failing to comply with the law that violates their consciences, we too must be arrested, for in the sight of that law we are now as guilty as they." When he was not immediately arrested, he called the Government "derelict...
...annual report to the Attorney General, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover last week charged that the U.S. Communist Party was "deeply involved" in the Pentagon march and earlier antiwar rallies, and "can look back on 1967 with a degree of satisfaction...
...Official Pentagon figures †Estimated