Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest talks, he brought an enlarged delegation from Washington; the size of the group, plus the fact that it included a retired Army general, convinced some observers that the Pentagon had softened its opposition to the negotiations...
...letter to the Times, Schorr reminded the editors that they had lost no time in publishing the Pentagon papers as a paperback, presumably not at a loss. He argued that his moral problem was "how to avoid making a profit." He had to find a publisher but did not see why that publisher "should be the sole beneficiary...
Other scandals are still emerging or growing. It is not known yet exactly how many U.S. military officers and high-ranking Pentagon civilians accepted the hospitality of Northrop and other defense contractors at hunting lodges; the current count is 101. Some highly principled companies are investigating their overseas activities on their own. G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical firm, last month announced that it had discovered payments of $ 1.3 million to "foreign government employees or their agents." While the making of such voluntary disclosures is admirable, it intensifies a troubling question: When will the scandals ever...
State Department officials insist that they have thus far found no ill effects from the radiation. But Pentagon scientists have recommended that the U.S. demand an immediate halt to the microwave bombardment. They have also proposed putting in alarms to let embassy staffers know when they are being irradiated so they can leave the building...
Although it will hardly take on Pentagon papers proportions, the case of the Pike papers started yet another flap over the handling of secret information by reporters. CBS Washington Correspondent Daniel Schorr finally admitted that he was the one who gave New York's weekly broadside, the Village Voice (circ. 152,000), a copy of Representative Otis Pike's House Intelligence Committee's report on CIA and FBI covert operations (see THE NATION). The House had voted not to release it, but, said Schorr, he acted on "an inescapable decision of journalistic conscience." Although the document contained...