Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this unusual journey he once welcomed Neville Chamberlain's attempt to win peace by accommodation. It was a rude but enduring lesson for Nitze. He became the insistent intellectual scold arguing for greater American strength. He directed policy planning at the State Department, served eight years in the Pentagon, including a term as Secretary of the Navy, then was a SALT negotiator for five years in Geneva. Today, at 72, Nitze is a large part of the firepower against SALT...
...Phoenix missiles that belong to Iran. The U.S. Government decided it was more prudent to trust the Khomeini forces with preventing the planes from falling into Soviet hands than to chart a treacherous course of blowing up the planes or seeking to fly them to a safe destination. Pentagon officials said that the critical electronic guidance systems the Soviets would like to confiscate and study have been safely transplanted to secure locations. But the radar dishes along Iran's northern border with the Soviet Union are still targeted for destruction if they should be placed in jeopardy. The radar...
...have contingency plans to destroy or spirit out of the country some of the most sensitive equipment if necessary. The most important items are the fighters and 500 Phoenix missiles stored in igloos near by. If there was a clear danger that these missiles might fall into Soviet hands, Pentagon sources suggest, loyal Iranian pilots would fly the planes to safety, possibly Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials fear that any such plans, if carried out without consulting the Iranian government, would be construed, however, as an unwarranted interference in Iran's domestic affairs. Many Iranians were furious that...
...number of poems, five of which appear in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. He also reads Greek history in the original. "It's trying to dig out the truth from ancient documents the way I used to dig them out of the Pentagon," says Stone. So excited is he about his new endeavor that he has lectured about it on the college circuit. At Berkeley, he called himself "a recycled freshman in ancient Greece...
...current SALT talks with the Soviet Union. Carter proposes, for example, to order the eighth submarine in the $21 billion-plus Trident program, in which costs have been shooting out of sight. He also calls for spending $237.5 million to continue development of the cruise missile system, which the Pentagon wants as a counterweight to the Soviet nuclear strike force...