Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost certainly, McDonnell Douglas will survive the travail of the DC-10. At worst, James ("Old Mac") McDonnell, the company's octogenarian chairman, would close the Douglas division and face a few tough years. Alternatively, the Pentagon could step in with a Lockheed-type federal bailout to protect its No. 1 supplier, though that will probably not be necessary. Military officers who have long been dealing with the company agree on one thing: "Old Mac is probably madder than hell that he ever picked up Douglas...
...Education would become a mouthpiece for the NEA while a Department of Health would become a loudspeaker for the American Medical Association. Both Albert Shanker, president of the AFT, and Bok, despite their diverging motivations, suggest an internal reorganization of the massive HEW machinery along the lines of the Pentagon's five services. Bok says he would hate to see "a better structured organization within a very strong department (i.e., HEW) replaced by a Cabinet secretary in a really weak department...
...would govern how many warhead-dispensing maneuvers the top stage of the missile could engage in as it re-entered the atmosphere. In December 1978, the Soviets had twice tested the SS-18 with its full complement often warheads but with two feints?or "release simulations"?as well. Pentagon and Senate skeptics suspected that the Russians might be developing an SS-18 with a capacity to carry more warheads than allowed. The Soviets, however, claimed that the feints were merely intended to make it easier for the warheads to penetrate antiballistic missile defenses. To complicate matters...
...enhance the impact by making both announcements in the same week. So the two negotiators drew out their final round over three meetings. At their last meeting on Monday, Vance told Dobrynin the U.S. was willing to relinquish the option of seven warheads on the Minuteman?an option the Pentagon had no intention of exercising anyway. Shortly afterward, Vance telephoned Harold Brown and asked him to order the Air Force to remove the shelters at Malmstrom. Soon after that, the two Secretaries met at the White House to announce the agreement...
...rejected, a freeze on MIRVed heavies. Besides, Pentagon and CIA analysts had been saying for some time that the Soviet SS-19 rocket, technically classified as a light launcher, was more accurate and therefore at least as threatening as its brutish big brother, the heavy...