Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHARLES W. COLSON, 43, Nixon's special counsel. Pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for devising a scheme to get and disseminate derogatory information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg in 1971; serving a one-to-three-year sentence...
...Kubrick hasn't made very many films (this is one of his early ones), and whatever one thinks of 2001 or Clockwork Orange, he's always managed to come up with pictures really worth confronting. His range is phenomenal: he gave us the mythical war room of the Pentagon in Strangelove, for instance, and he was the first to visualize it for us. Now we take it for granted that generals plot in blinking chambers like that, with a giant map of the world that's laid out like a game of Risk. And there was Paths of Glory...
...Hersh's revelations over the past six years read like a historic road map to a generation: the massacre at My Lai, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's wiretapping of his aides (Kissinger has called him "my nemesis"), Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, the Pentagon's pilfering of Kissinger's documents, the CIA's involvement in Chilean President Allende's downfall...
...fact, Kidd and other Pentagon planners are finding that some of the contracts they do sign are all but worthless. Because inflation has wiped out their profits on fixed-price deals, some contractors are backing out of their commitments, even though they risk being sued for default. Says Admiral Kidd: "Subcontractors tell us that it is simply cheaper for them to renege on the or der with the prime contractor. Litigation for default will cost them $3 million to $5 million, but at least they will keep the company" - which might go bust if it sold at the originally agreed...
Other contractors, increasingly wise to the toll of inflation, tell the Pentagon that they will sign only pacts that let them set the final price when the weapons are actually delivered...