Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon is not always the labyrinth of secrets that outsiders imagine. For this week's cover story on defense, Correspondents Bruce Nelan and Jerry Hannifin penetrated the maze and found, according to Hannifin, that the military is "one of the most accessible beats in Washington." "It's no bunker filled with manic Strangeloves planning the next war," says Nelan. "It's really like any other big company, except that its business is national security. People stop to chat in the halls, and the doors of the brass are open...
Nelan attributes the Pentagon's new candor to Defense Secretary Harold Brown and his Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Thomas B. Ross. Brown announced when he took over that...
Hannifin was granted access to the North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he monitored NORAD'S worldwide and deep-space observation systems. Another major stop for him was "Pentagon-South," the Army Materiel Command in Arlington, Va., where Army engineers develop and test new hardware...
...institution that crosses his path: dim. Wht saves The Age of Uncertainty from being a history text is the personal touch. Tour-guide Galbraith knows the landscape well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light at the end of the tunnel"); conferences of revolutionaries ("By occuring, they persuade the participants, and often others, that something is happening when nothing is happening or can happen...
...chosen last month as best documentary, and her credentials are impressive--sound woman on Hearts and Minds, camera, sound and direction on Winter Soldiers, and camera woman Gimme Shelter--all three classic documentaries of the 1970s. Kopple is a veteran of the anti-war movement, "from the first Pentagon march where they clubbed us," and sincere in her leftism. "I grew up on a vegetable farm outside New York, and one of the first things I remember is going home from school to watch the McCarthy trial on t.v. I don't know why I think...