Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration is bogging down in obtaining a SALT II agreement with the Soviets. Sharp differences over arms limitations exist, not only between Washington and Moscow but also between the State Department and the Pentagon. Some presidential advisers side with the military because they fear a new SALT agreement might be an election-year liability. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger insists that the Joint Chiefs ought to support him on SALT, if for no other reason than that an agreement would give them the cruise missiles they want. Some military men do support him, but for a different reason. They argue...
...What worries the analysts is that this superiority may not last, since the Soviets seem determined to narrow the quality gap. Moscow publishes no figures on its military expenditures, but the Soviet Union seems to be devoting an ever greater share of national spending to defense. Pentagon experts estimate that last year's Soviet military budget was $141 billion; the U.S. spent $94 billion. In 1964 the U.S. spent $110.4 billion on defense (in 1976 dollars), while the Soviets spent $100 billion. Last week the CIA conceded that it may have been underestimating, by almost one-half, the percentage...
Mere Intimidation. There is no evidence that Moscow is planning a military offensive against the U.S. or the Atlantic Alliance, and it is widely assumed that the Kremlin would not now risk U.S. nuclear retaliation. Some experts, however, are not so certain. Malcolm R. Currie, Pentagon director of research and engineering, warned at a Washington press conference last week that "it would be a fundamental mistake" to believe that Soviet leaders view a nuclear war as unthinkable...
...EDITORS OF The New York Times and any other newspaper that printed the Pentagon Papers, anyone who has ever picketed a federal building to protest the Viet Nam War, and all those who have lent others novels with obscenities in them have something in common. They all would have been put in jail if Senate Bill One, a revision of the federal criminal code, now being debated on the Senate floor, were on the books...
Schorr's rebuttal, replies Times Editorial Page Editor John B. Oakes, is "irrelevant. What we make money from, which is publishing the news, seems to me totally a different context from what Schorr did, which was to traffic in the news." As for the Pentagon paperback, Oakes argues, all the Times did was to publish in more permanent form what had already appeared in the newspaper; what the Times opposes, says Oakes, is "selling to a third party, no matter for how lofty a cause...