Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial of John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs chief, who is charged with conspiracy and perjury in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ehrlichman's lawyers hope to show that Kissinger had told their client and the President that Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers, was a national security risk. With White House backing, Kissinger was fighting the subpoena, claiming that he knew nothing about Ehrlichman's innocence or guilt...
...Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt with the CIA. A longtime employee who retired from the agency in 1970, Hunt exploited his CIA connections to assist him in his Watergate activities. At White House request, CIA psychiatrists helped put together a profile of Daniel Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers; other agents used CIA labs to develop photos taken by Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy when they were casing the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...that was emphasized dramatically when newspapers began publishing the classified Pentagon papers...
...first U.S. visit as Defense Minister, Peres assaulted the Pentagon with a massive five-year $7.5 billion plan for U.S. military aid to Israel. After meetings with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Peres described himself as "encouraged" over getting the bulk of his requests. Before returning home he talked with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter about Middle East developments that bear on his requests. Excerpts of his views...
...Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested their personal funds. Fred J. Borch, former chairman of General Electric, put up $440,920; William H. Morton, president of American Express, $57,000; Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, an unknown amount; James R. Shepley...