Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ships wait up to three months to dock at Persian Gulf ports, trucks are backed up at border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...
...itself seems about to disappear. After the SALT agreement, the Pentagon began work on a Safeguard site near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but Congress decided that a second installation at Washington, D.C., was not worth the cost. Last year, Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev reduced the ABM limit to one site each...
...Prodding. Last June, Northrop Chief Executive Thomas V. Jones promised to turn over to the subcommittee the names of its Government guests, then had second thoughts, possibly because it realized the backlash it risked. So instead of sending the list to the Senate, Northrop turned it over to the Pentagon, which began a series of investigations. But the months ground on without the Senators hearing anything further on the matter...
...week's end, however, under heavy prodding, the Defense Department finally released its report. It confirmed that 40 high-ranking officers and Pentagon civilians visited the preserve. The department cautioned against such actions in the future, but not a single officer will be subject to disciplinary action. Among the guests: Vice Admiral W.D. Houser, deputy chief of naval operations for air warfare; Admiral John P. Weinel, former planning director for the Joint Chiefs; Nevada Democratic Senator Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power; and Democratic Representative Robert Legett of the House Armed Services Committee...
...controversy has been widely compared to the Pentagon papers case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld on First Amendment grounds of press freedom the right of the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish secret government documents on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Britain has no such written constitutional guarantee; governments have in the past had little trouble bullying the press into bland quiescence, and the courts have stood idly by. Jubilant British journalists greeted Lord Widgery's decision as a long stride in the other direction. "It ends the notion that civil servants should...