Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget totals, they are free to concentrate on specific areas where they can take issue with Ford. He requests a sizable $12.9 billion jump in defense spending, to $123.1 billion. Carter can trim $5 billion or more from the total-as he pledged in the campaign -without upsetting many Pentagon plans...
Secretary of State-designate Cyrus Vance admitted that U.S. involvement in Viet Nam had been "a mistake" and that he, as the Pentagon's No. 2 official in the mid-'60s, had made "more than my share of mistakes." Incoming Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall revealed that he had urged an economic stimulus package with a much greater emphasis on Government support of jobs than the plan approved by Carter. Fiery Patricia Harris, HUD nominee, rebuked Senator William Proxmire for challenging her qualifications to represent the poor who need housing help. "I am a black woman," she said...
...report, the U.S. Navy had a role in more than 80% of the muscle flexings, land-based warplanes were involved in 50%, ground combat units in 20% and strategic nuclear forces in 10%. The study's co-authors-Brookings Staffers Barry Blechman (a key member of the Carter Pentagon transition team) and Stephen S. Kaplan-focused mainly on the U.S. Reason: the Soviet Union has become a truly global power only in recent years, and even today its most vital foreign interests are in neighboring Eastern Europe, where 31 Soviet divisions make it superfluous for Moscow to wave...
...sake of realism, refugees from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former...
...problem revolved around Carter's campaign pledge that he would cut $5 billion to $7 billion from the defense budget by reducing waste and inefficiency. Even some of the reporters who had followed him closely got the idea that what Carter meant was that he would reduce the Pentagon's budget right away and in absolute terms-that under his control, the military would spend up to $7 billion less than it did under the Ford Administration...