Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general grinds to a halt. Two enlisted men enter, paint him a neutral olive drab and carry him off to the Pentagon, where he will replace a computer...
...pilots, the missions were as routine as any ever are in the face of North Viet Nam's formidable air-defense system. The targets: the Yen Vien railroad center northeast of the capital, and Van Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
...book begins with Marshall's appointment as Chief of Staff on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler's armor moved into Poland, and ends on Dec. 31, 1942, with his 62nd birthday party (sherry and cake) in the Pentagon-and with Rommel still in Africa and the Red army just hanging on at Stalingrad. Between those dates lay a Pikes Peak of paper. This has been industriously mined and smelted down by his official historian, Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, combat historian in World War II and currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation...
...Curtis (R-Mo.) and includes, among others, Rep. Robert B. Kastenmeier (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Ronald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.). At the hearings they will cite a report prepared by an economist at the University of Washington as proof that a volunteer army is feasible, and charge that the Pentagon is suppressing a Defense Department report saying the same thing. They will tell Rivers that if he does not at least raise soldiers' pay to see if the enlistment rate rises, they will turn the issue into a campaign slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." The Democrats will probably have...
...experts are somewhat mystified by the new spurt of Russian missile activity, particularly since there has been no sign that the Soviets have embarked on a comprehensive shelter program to go with it. As some in the Pentagon see it, the Russians may be trying to put economic pressure on the U.S., figuring that their expenditures would be well worth it if they lead the U.S. to budget $30 billion or so on top of the rising expenses of the Viet Nam war. While the Russians obviously consider the U.S. their chief threat now, it may turn out that they...