Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excluded those few draft dodgers who had used "force and violence" to stay out of uniform. More important, he did not forgive the 4,500 deserters still at large, or the 88,700 who received less than honorable discharges for deserting or going AWOL. He simply asked the Pentagon to review their cases with the aim of possibly upgrading some discharges. Finally, Carter promised to begin another study of the estimated 173,000 undesirable discharges that had been dispensed during the Viet Nam years. Pentagon critics claim that many men received such discharges for conduct that really stemmed from their...
Major Michael Birch, a Pentagon spokesman, said yesterday that Carter will probably announce his choice in the near future, but said he could not predict exactly when that announcement will take place...
Several members of the Government Department said yesterday a Huntington appointment would be controversial in part because he articulated the "forced-draft urbanization" thesis that the Pentagon used to justify bombing the South Vietnamese countryside in the late...
...York Times reported Monday that Brown plans a major Pentagon reorganization that could eliminate the post for which Huntington is being considered. Brown subsequently denied that report, however...
...Allison said yesterday that although he has been working with the Pentagon's transition staff, he has not discussed a possible appointment with Defense Department officials...