Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the week Carter kept up a hectic pace. He flew to Atlanta and Washington, conferred with scores of businessmen, Congressmen, northeastern Governors; the future Commander in Chief also called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and toured the national military command center. On appointments, however, he remained intentionally slow and methodical. While flying on a chartered Boeing 727 from Atlanta to Washington, he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "These may be the most important two months of my first term. I'm anxious to get people into their jobs so that...
...Government of the new politics and economics of austerity . . . Argued that new programs should not be launched without careful forecasting of the economy's "fiscal dividend"-the difference between expected future growth in Government income and built-in raises in federal spending . . . Rapped Republicans for failure to cut Pentagon spending after Viet Nam . . . Scorns facile promises about reducing spending ("As long as people talk without being specific, it's easy to talk about big cuts") . . . Calls now for "a large dose of fiscal stimulation" through tax reductions...
Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded...
...crewmen to speak, Rodriguez provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions of the sub-including nuclear missiles and torpedoes-had been recovered from the seabed. "A technical mother lode." one Navy official called...
...fact, much more than that was recovered, say TIME'S Pentagon sources, even though the previous version that the entire sub was raised was apparently wrong. What was recovered was the bulk of the weapons system installed in the vessel, which carried three SSN5 surface-to-surface nuclear missiles. This is according to the Pentagon sources, who stick by their accounts of a far fuller retrieval than previously conceded by the CIA. Thus, after another twist of the Glomar mystery, the successes-or failures-of the mission remain confused...