Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Department, this was supposed to be the year of the long knives. Even Pentagon friends like Barry Goldwater and Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis were talking about ways to economize on defense spending, particularly on the $21.9 billion requested for new weapons systems. But when the fight over the procurement portion of the 1974 budget ended last week, the Defense Department emerged surprisingly unscathed...
...Ernest Fitzgerald, a onetime civilian cost analyst for the Air Force, found out. After Fitzgerald disclosed to a subcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee in November 1968 that cost overruns on the giant C-5A cargo plane added up to a phenomenal $2 billion, his days at the Pentagon were numbered. His Air Force superiors, Fitzgerald claims, did not applaud his frankness before Congress. He was cut off from cost information about major weapons systems, an investigation of his private life was initiated, laudatory comments were excised from his record before it was turned over to Congress, and finally...
...that was done to me." How will he feel back at the old job? "I intend to go back and approach it with an open mind. Many of the people there are new. The people who hated me most are gone," said Fitzgerald. "I have unfinished business in the Pentagon...
...Court of Appeals in Washington will rule on whether the President must surrender his secret Watergate tapes to a federal grand jury. In addition, more indictments are expected shortly in connection with both the Watergate break-in and the burglary at the office of the psychiatrist of Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Said one presidential adviser: "It's like sitting here waiting for 24,000 volts. You know it's coming, but you don't know when...
...Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...