Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATO summit endorsed a long-term plan to improve the alliance's defenses. Pentagon planners estimate that the program will cost between $60 billion and $80 billion, with the U.S. paying a bit more than half. Carter also reaffirmed a longstanding policy to defend Europe with atomic weapons, if necessary. Proclaimed the President: "An attack on Europe would have the full consequences of an attack on the United States. Let there be no misunderstanding, the United States is prepared to use all the forces necessary for the defense of the NATO area...
...billion in a single year. HEW has the third largest budget in the world, outranked only by those of the U.S. Government and the Soviet Union. Its spending roughly equals that of all 50 states combined. The department goes through $500 million every day. By comparison, the Pentagon is a piker's operation (1979 budget: $118 billion). That fact alone indicates how American priorities have changed...
...goal became victory for the pro-Western groups. To that end, Stockwell says, the agency not only got directly involved in the spreading fighting, which soon swept the elections away, but also lied about its activities to Congress and to the so-called 40 Committee, the White House-Pentagon-State Department group charged with overseeing U.S. intelligence operations...
Brzezinski is clearly prepared to discuss all these matters. Accompanying him are top Asia experts from his National Security Council staff and the State Department, plus the NSC's security planning coordinator, Samuel Huntington; its science and technology specialist, Benjamin Huberman; and the Pentagon's Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Morton Abramowitz. Despite the size of his entourage, which is certain to flatter his hosts, Brzezinski is not expecting concrete results. He told TIME: "This is not a tactical trip. It is designed to emphasize that our relationship with China is continuing and longterm, based...
...conference and ride off on his horse. The columnist also remembers an intense young man who showed up in his Washington office with fantastic tales of U.S. duplicity. Wicker sent him away for lack of proof; three years later the visitor, Daniel Ellsberg, returned to the Times with the Pentagon papers...