Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce Nelan, who last served in Washington in the late '60s and is now back covering the Pentagon, found that "officials' doors are literally open. It's surprising and refreshing." Chris Ogden was pleased to note that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's second official meal (after lunch with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin) was dinner with several State Department correspondents, including Ogden...
Defense Secretary Harold Brown, 49, signaled his return to the Pentagon, where he had run weapons development in the McNamara years, by firing off 33 memos to aides on his first day. The memos suggested ways to cut the military budget by $2.8 billion. Among Brown's proposals: buying 72 rather than 108 F-15 fighters, building five instead of eight B-l bombers, and slowing production of the latest Minuteman III missile and development of still another intercontinental missile known as the MX. Brown was working 14-hour days and had no intention of slackening the pace...
...Administration's SALT Working Group, composed of representatives from the State Department, Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA and National Security Council, is studying options. "The amount of work is simply not that great," says one White House official, "but the questions are tough." The feeling in Washington is that Carter may eventually adopt a double package. Says a presidential adviser...
...arms and support its troops at U.S. prices. While this permits a statistical basis for comparing Soviet efforts with those of the U.S., for a time it also provoked charges that it overstated Soviet spending, thus providing ammunition for advocates of a heftier Pentagon budget. Bowing to this criticism, the CIA revamped its estimating procedures by eliminating controversial items and drawing on improved intelligence-gathering techniques. Although the new estimate of Soviet military outlays, as calculated in dollars, was revised downward slightly, the conclusion remains: since 1972, Soviet military expenditures have surpassed America's-and the gap is widening...
...that, some affidavits that he submitted in the Pentagon papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg surfaced! As a defense witness, Sorensen testified that he, like Ellsberg, had removed classified information without authorization. When Sorensen left the White House in 1964, he took along 67 boxes of documents, seven of them classified. Included were memos on the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, the war in Laos, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed...