Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was similar consternation in Washington, from the Pentagon and State Department to Capitol Hill. "Another in a long line of Carter mistakes," declared Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee. Said Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, a friend of Carter's and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "I'm dismayed and puzzled. I don't understand. They're not on a very clear course...
...Linguistic purists in the Pentagon insist that the neutron bomb is a warhead and not a bomb at all, but many military experts classify shells, warheads and other explosive weapons that come down on the enemy from the air as bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme...
...Somalis accepted Soviet MIG's, artillery weapons and armed personnel carriers in exchange for Soviet rights to the port of Berbera. This led Kenya and Ethiopia--already friendly to the U.S.--to ask for a step up of arms shipments to them. The U.S. subsequently supplied both with obsolete Pentagon reject weapons...
More ominously, the production of the neutron bomb furnishes the Pentagon with the option of a tactical skirmish that could easily escalate into a full-scale strategic war. Besides increasing the nuclear threat confronting our society, deployment of the weapon will only worsen relations with the Soviet Union and make a farce of all disarmament talks. With all these adverse effects to consider, it is imperative that Carter maintain his heretofore tentative stand against U.S. production of the neutron bomb...
...What was Bach Mai hospital, and what did the Pentagon say about...