Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court refused without comment to hear John Ehrlichman's appeal of his conviction for engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, is serving time at Safford Prison, a cluster of cement-block buildings in the Arizona desert, and could be eligible for parole in April...
...Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
Many went back to their old careers: former HEW Secretary David Mathews as president of the University of Alabama; former Deputy Pentagon Chief William Clements as chairman of Sedco Inc., an oil well-drilling firm in Dallas; and former Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb as head of Shearson Hayden Stone's investment banking department in New York City. Says Zarb: "You always miss people, old friends, old places. But it took me about ten minutes to get adjusted...
What would the U.S. do if a real crisis developed? The State Department set up an operations center, and the Pentagon ordered the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and five other naval vessels, which had been cruising in the Indian Ocean, to stand by off the East African coast. The ships were not really equipped for an airborne rescue operation-together they carried fewer than 200 Marines-but Washington hoped that their presence would have an inhibiting influence on Amin. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told reporters: "The President will take whatever steps he thinks are necessary and proper...
...academic scientists, Physics Teacher Joel Primack of the University of California and Environmentalist Frank von Hippel of Princeton, present case histories documenting the tendency of many scientists to "look the other way" when the Government wants to lie about technical matters. A scholarly polemic by Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power, scathes not the scientists but their intimacy with governmental powers. The identification is so complete that scientists, Mumford charges, have until lately "been criminally negligent in anticipating or even reporting what has actually been taking place...