Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bach Mai hospital, located in Hanoi, was destroyed by American bombs in December 1972. Part of the hospital's function was to teach people deafened by bomb concussions to speak again. A Pentagon spokesman said at the time that there might have been "accidental, limited damage...if indeed there is such a hospital...
...blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe out 50,000 human beings...
Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, 63, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy. Long regarded as one of the Army's leading strategists, Goodpaster served as NATO commander, deputy commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, and for seven years as President Dwight Eisenhower's liaison with the Pentagon, State Department...
Kosner: What've the Pentagon papers got to do with it? This isn't a freedom-of-the-press issue. If those Pentagon papers hadn't been printed, you might argue that the public was denied something it had a right to know. Nothing's being kept from the public here that entitles you to jump a book's publication date by four days...
...Four days after I began my research, the Pentagon called the hospital where I work, wanting to know exactly who I was and what I was doing," he said. Fearing for safety, Najarian called in The Boston Globe to help in the research. Their joint findings were released last week...