Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempting to dismiss arguments against cutting the military budget as "Pentagon propaganda." But the Middle East conflict demonstrates again that the Soviets have developed highly sophisticated weapons for use outside their territory. Also the high casualty rate resulting from Israel's waiting for the other side to strike first illustrates the human cost that is ultimately paid when-rightly or wrongly-other priorities are placed ahead of national defense...
Vietvets spoke of "toe-poppers," "daisy cutters" and "dragon's teeth" -all antipersonnel maiming explosives that they had used in Viet Nam. Anthony Russo, who helped to make the Pentagon papers public, recalled that, as the war escalated, he once took a grenade to the computer room of the Rand Corporation. "I wanted to throw it in there," he testified. "Had I been younger, I think I would have done...
...discrepancy in the accounts as to when the alert was signaled added to the doubts. Secretary Kissinger said that it came at 3 a.m.; the Pentagon claimed that the time was more like midnight. The sequence gave rise to suspicions among some that Nixon might have decided on the alert, then presented it to the council to be ratified...
...Last week's alert was what the Pentagon calls "Defcon 3" for Defense Condition Three, in which troops report to barracks for possible movement and stand by for action. Under Defcon 2 they would proceed to staging areas. In Defcon 1 they would be deployed and engaged...
Even as Speaker, Albert is rarely in the public eye. He lives quietly in a modest apartment in northwest Washington with his wife Mary, a former Pentagon clerk. They have two children: David, 18, a student at Harvard, and Mary Frances, 25, who teaches high school in Washington. To keep his weight down, Albert jogs and swims. He is seldom seen on the cocktail circuit, devotes himself to his family and his work, and his strongest expletive is "jeepers creepers...