Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the President ordered the Pentagon to prepare for possible military action. At his direction, Defense Department officials put on alert a 1,100-man amphibious brigade from the 3rd Marine Division, based on Okinawa. In addition, they directed six ships already in the Pacific?the destroyer escort Har old E. Holt, guided missile destroyer Henry B. Wilson and the aircraft carrier Coral Sea, accompanied by three destroyer escorts?to head for the Gulf of Siam. Finally, the Pentagon ordered three Navy P3 Orion anti-submarine reconnaissance planes at the U.S. Air Force Base at Utapao, Thailand, to keep watch...
...this small war has garnered Ford a great deal of political mileage. That Ford is concerned about the political implications of the Mayaguez incident can be seen in the slow way the Defense Department is revealing its information. It was not until reporters specifically asked about a discrepancy in Pentagon reports that it revealed there was a second air attack on Sihanoukville 37 minutes after the crew of the Mayaguez was recovered. Kissinger explained this second air attack on unused oil refineries as an effort to "absorb their [Cambodian forces'] energies in other things than attempting to intervene with...
...among the best-trained and best-equipped fighters in the world. The North Vietnamese army of 570,000 is four times as large as that of Thailand. In swiftly conquering the South, the Communists fell heir to some $5 billion worth of U.S. military equipment, according to Pentagon estimates. Though nearly 200 American-built planes were flown out of Viet Nam to Thailand by escaping South Vietnamese pilots (and then largely recovered by the U.S.), dozens of aircraft fell into the Communists' hands, including 72 F-5s and A-37 jets. In addition, the North Vietnamese military picked...
...highest honor. Yet in recent years the annual awards have often generated more controversy than kudos. The Columbia University Board of Trustees, which oversees the selection process, publicly chastised its own Pulitzer advisory board two years ago for honoring the New York Times's disclosure of the Pentagon papers and Jack Anderson for his columns on Washington's "tilt" toward Pakistan during the India-Pakistan war. Last year, when the Providence Journal-Bulletin 's Jack White gained a prize for revealing Richard Nixon's minimal income taxes, the trustees were upset again: they felt that publication...
DANIEL ELLSBERG, 44, former Rand Corp. consultant who made the Pentagon papers public: "All the commentators seem to have emphasized the tragedy, humiliation and sadness of all this. I think it was somewhat perverse to react only to that aspect of the events at the moment when the war was finally coming gloriously to a conclusion. It was the will of the American people, expressed to Congress, that ended this war now. That's the best possible celebration of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution that I can imagine...