Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fund on campus have been collecting money for Israel, as they do every year at this time. Under the guise of charity these people are urging support for the State of Israel and are supporting its policies by providing dollars which are indirectly used to buy arms which the Pentagon so willingly provides...
Although most of its attention focuses on Congress, the Jewish lobby does not ignore the White House, Pentagon or State Department?although one Kissinger aide claims that Jewish lobbyists have just about given up on the Secretary and work through Congress instead. Friction arose, for example, over Nixon's opposition to helping Soviet Jews through the Jackson Amendment, but Jewish leaders had no difficulty discussing it with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet...
...Pentagon, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was sensitive enough to Israel's possible reaction following J.C.S. Chairman Brown's comments to call Dinitz before the remarks became widely public. According to several Washington sources, Schlesinger apologized to Dinitz and asked if he was concerned. Said Dinitz: "General Brown's remarks should worry you" Replied Schlesinger: "They do. I ask myself: What ever is our purpose? To destroy Israel or to break the oil chain the Arabs have put around us? If the purpose of U.S. policy is to break that chain, then the U.S. must build a strong Israel...
...Cambodia falls, we'll all feel very bad." So said a Pentagon official last week as the Ford Administration pleaded with a reluctant Congress to vote $222 million in extra military aid for the Phnom-Penh government. In defense of their request, White House officials and Cabinet members trotted out several arguments. Most compelling was the warning that without an emergency infusion of ammunition, the government of President Lon Nol is in imminent danger of falling to the Communist-led Khmer Rouge insurgents. "An independent Cambodia cannot survive unless the Congress acts very soon to provide supplemental military...
...different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North Dakota and the North American Air Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain headquarters in Colorado, which keeps track of every man-made object in space (3,269 at last count...