Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Proposals for reducing the current budget of $305 billion by between $5 billion and $6 billion, largely by paring some defense and public-works spending. Inflation will make this difficult. Last week the Pentagon reported that the original cost estimates on 42 major weapons systems under development, notably the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine-missile system, have increased by a walloping $37 billion, and by $16 billion in the past three months alone. To fight inflation, budget cutting and tight money will probably remain the two keys of Administration policy...
When he began his last White House tour of duty, he found almost total paralysis in the wake of the Haldeman-Ehrlichman firing. He got the machinery going again. He found that Nixon had no Watergate counsel. Haig recruited Fred Buzhardt from the Pentagon and urged Nixon to lay out all of the Watergate case. When Nixon made his May 22 statement, Haig thought that was the whole story. How could he have continued to believe as one by one Nixon's defenses were shown to be false, incomplete? That is the part that Haig cannot explain away. Maybe...
...none has been forthcoming. Thieu seems reluctant to gag the opposition, at least for now, apparently fearing the impact that a crackdown would have on Gerald Ford, the U.S. Congress and American opinion. The Pentagon had originally asked for $1.6 billion in military aid, which South Viet Nam desperately needed, but Congress has tentatively trimmed aid for the next fiscal year to $700 million. The Administration had hoped to get $750 million from Congress to shore up Saigon's sagging economy, but Capitol Hill seems more likely to settle for a modest $400 million. For Nguyen Van Thieu...
...penalized the war resisters. Unlike all of his predecessors, he has offered involuntary servitude to those who were once denied alternative service. He calls this amnesty, but in many cases it is not even leniency. It is a policy that demands the submission of those who knew the Pentagon was wrong...
...Senator Birch Bayh that would give all federal officials-including Nixon-180 days after they leave office to turn over to the General Services Administration any documents and tapes produced in Government service. The GSA would deposit the materials in the National Archives. As in the case of the Pentagon Papers, the documents would belong to the Government...