Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospects in the full Senate equally uncertain if an aid bill reaches the floor. Unless some aid measure also emerges from the House, however, any Senate approval will be in vain. In practical terms, the Administration's best bet seems to lie in getting approval to shift existing Pentagon funds to keep ammunition flowing to Cambodia rather than in seeking new money...
Almost certainly not. According to Pentagon officials, it would only be a matter of time before South Viet Nam's forces would be forced to surrender to the Communists; at best, Saigon might be able to negotiate a settlement, but only on Hanoi's terms...
...craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking apron for aged or unneeded aircraft. TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini visited MASDC to roam among its aerial mastodons and talk with their keepers...
...fact, Gronewald has more planes under his command than any other base commander in the U.S. Air Force. He soon discovered that the base he commands is more than a giant junkyard, although one MASDC task is reclaiming usable parts from those planes that will never fly again. The Pentagon transmits a weekly computerized "save list," and in a special hangar MASDC maintenance mechanics go to work removing anything from a ball bearing to a tail section. Reclaimed jet engines awaiting shipment hang in rows like sides of beef...
...righteous indignation may tend to blind the documentary film maker to his prime task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects on a smaller screen. The subject and scope of the Southeast Asian conflict are too large for such narrow-gauge examination. Unhappily, the war has not yet finished exacting its terrible penalties and distortions. Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began...