Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match the M-16's maximum sustained rate of fire (up to 200 rounds a minute v. 60 for the M-14). Many Marines-as well as the South Korean troops in Viet Nam-are still armed with the slower-firing M-14, and as a result the Pentagon has also been faulted for failure to supply all the M-16s that the Allies in Viet Nam demanded...
Another concern is whether the U.S. would have the resources to intervene or whether its forces might be stretched into a perilously thin line. But the U.S. did, after all, stifle a previous Middle East crisis by landing 15,000 men in Lebanon in 1958 with little strain. The Pentagon maintains that it could do the same today-Viet Nam notwithstanding -by flying troops in from Western European bases...
Some firms also figure that the rising federal deficit will force the Government to pre-empt borrowable funds later in the year. Indeed, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler admitted to Congress last week that falling corporate tax revenues and climbing Pentagon spending will push this year's deficit to $11 billion, or $1.3 billion more than the Administration forecast only four months ago. Fowler also predicted that the red ink might soar to an inflationary $24 billion in election year 1968 if war costs continue to escalate or if Congress fails to raise taxes. Accordingly, Fowler asked...
Though the proportion of Negroes to whites in Viet Nam is higher than the domestic civilian ratio (23% v. 11%), the Pentagon issued no comparative figures on their casualties. Because a great number of Negroes volunteer for the riskier assignments, their losses presumably are relatively higher...
...March 1, 1967. Items: > California, the nation's most populous state, took the heaviest losses: 683 dead. New York, second most populous, had the second highest toll: 530. Next were Pennsylvania, 484; Texas, 442; Ohio, 388 and Illinois, 378. >Southern states-a point not made by the Pentagon-suffered proportionately higher losses than other regions: e.g., Alabama, 196; Georgia, 200 and North Carolina...