Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans fly over most of Siberia to see what's going on-in exchange for our letting the Russians overfly all the U.S. west of the Mississippi. This is the Soviets' reply to Eisenhower's open-skies plan. Whether to regard it as outrageous (the Pentagon view), grounds for guarded optimism (the State Department view), or simply a Russian attempt to resume the international conversation that Budapest interrupted, is assessed in FOREIGN NEWS, Pieces...
...Ambassador Richards read his comeback orders, Washington flashed a new order to the Sixth Fleet. From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
...object of the withdrawal was to demonstrate that the U.S., after its show of the flag in the Eastern Mediterranean, is confident of King Hussein's stability. But, just to make sure, the Pentagon ordered five Sixth Fleet transports, loaded with U.S. Marines and protected by a screen of destroyers, to remain behind for "fire-brigade duty" if the threat of war should flare again...
Such brazen balancing of vast tracts of Siberian snow against much more densely populated and industrially important areas of the U.S. was promptly pronounced "outrageous" in the Pentagon. There were other items in the Soviet package that proposed even more one-sided disarmament of the West: a reduction in forces that would leave the U.S. with too few men to keep up its NATO commitments, and a scheme for setting up ground control posts that would bring every part of Europe and the U.S. under surveillance-except the Russian heartland...
...arguing that any such restriction would be "abridging the freedom of the press." Last week, in a "Dear Arthur" answer, Secretary Dulles gave a definition of press freedom that, if widely adopted, would deny newsmen access to every time-honored news source, from the local police station to the Pentagon to Capitol Hill. "The constitutional 'freedom of the press,' " wrote Dulles, "relates to publication, and not to the gathering of news...