Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to know and the Government's need to be secretive, had instead turned into a tedious minuet, pivoting for the better part of twelve weeks around the strictly legal aspects of the case. Witnesses for the prosecution testified about fingerprints on the covers of the Pentagon Papers that allegedly proved theft by the defendants, and about blocks of text within that allegedly proved a breach of national security. But the larger moral issues behind the release of the Pentagon's Viet Nam War study were not heard in the trial until last week, when Ellsberg and Russo...
...separate announcements yesterday, the Pentagon and the State Department said mine-clearing operations by the U.S. Navy in North Vietnamese waters had been halted and the chief American delegate to a joint U.S.-North Vietnamese economic commission had been called home from Paris...
...leaking and publication of classified information has always been a murky area in criminal law, except when genuine military secrets are involved. Until the Pentagon papers case, the Government never bothered to prosecute. That would change radically if President Nixon's proposed Criminal Code Reform Act of 1973 is passed. For the first time, disclosure of any classified material would automatically be considered a felony. Any future Daniel Ellsberg would therefore be stripped of the defense that the revealed data did not harm national security. Reporters would be liable for prosecution if they published such material. Violators would face...
...natural resort for large corporations is the executive and now the Pentagon," Galbraith said last night. "Congress is closer to the average citizen and small businesses, and will be more responsive since the people can more easily vote them...
...Pentagon East," the sprawling U.S. military headquarters in Saigon, the only thing working was the air conditioning. The eerie silence, broken only by the clacking heels of an occasional soldier, resembled a scene from the last reel of On the Beach. Desks, chairs, maps and bookcases remained in place, but many of the offices were empty. Most of the 1,200 civilian bureaucrats and technicians who will eventually occupy the building were already on the job, but they slept, played chess or just looked out the windows at the crumbling concrete bunkers, now covered with bougainvillea...