Word: pentagon
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Calling the Pentagon a "rat-hole in Virginia," the ex-Marine added, "America needs to reject its historic role as police officer of the world, gun-runner of the world, counter-insurgency expert of the world...
...pursue what he calls "world order politics" and says he would be a tougher negotiator with the Kremlin. What all this means in practice, however, is somewhat unclear. Carter is similarly vague in explaining how he might succeed (where Ford has had trouble) in convincing Moscow-and the Pentagon-that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should begin reducing their nuclear arsenals. It is also uncertain how Carter, in practical terms, would fulfill his promise to do more than Ford to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons...
When a Russian pilot flew a MiG-25 to northern Japan last month and asked for political asylum in the U.S., CIA Director George Bush hailed the defection as an "intelligence bonanza." According to euphoric Pentagon spokesmen, an examination of the plane and interrogation of the pilot would yield vital secrets about Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects...
Clearly, the bonanza had turned into something of a bust for the Pentagon. The once legendary MiG-25 no longer provided so strong an argument for obtaining more appropriations for the U.S. fighter fleet. Michigan Democrat Robert Carr, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, declared that "as a demonstration of technology [the MiG-25] calls into serious question the Pentagon claims of mushrooming Soviet military gains...
...last week the genial Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, was on the phone to the Pentagon. Did the Army engineers, he asked, create a fake mushroom cloud for a re-enactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...