Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Security Council is not that generous. Its study concludes that the Russians are already surpassing the U.S. in every important nuclear category, offensive and defensive. The figures are far more alarming than any put out by the Pentagon; yet the council, too, works with the same basic data that have been generally available. By ascribing more importance than most strategists give to Soviet middle-range bombers, missiles and conventionally powered submarines, it concludes that the U.S. is already behind in the missile race by 2,750 to 1,710, and in bombers as well...
...difficult trick to turn; the next budgetary authorization involves construction of the first two sites. Still, the Administration needs to win only a handful of additional Senate votes. If that entails calling Safeguard, a research and development project rather than a frankly operational commitment, the White House and the Pentagon would be unlikely to resist...
...return of Pueblo's crew five months ago backed the Pentagon into a cruel corner. Navy regulations and service sentiment seemed heavily in favor of punishing Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and perhaps others, for allowing the vessel and her secret documents to fall into hostile hands without a serious attempt at resistance or destruction. To most of the public, though, Pueblo's skipper and crew were heroes who had suffered and survived eleven months of North Korean brutality. They were not for hanging. Last week Navy Secretary John Chafee steered between the reefs of opinion and proceeded...
...Scapegoats. In fact, Chafee's decision represented a deft solution to the Pentagon's thorny predicament. Chafee stated that he was making "no judgment regarding the guilt or innocence" of any of those connected with the spy ship's capture. He added that since the mission was based on the premise that North Korea would not violate the principle of freedom of the high seas, and since the assumption was made at all levels of command, that all had to share the consequences. In fact, the board of inquiry had proposed that the two officers senior...
Obviously, as long as the U.S. has its troops stationed in South Korea, the Pentagon regards the intelligence gathered by the EC-121s as worth the considerable risk. The same is true of the information collected by AGERS in other parts of the world. The provocations against them have been going on for a long time. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently disclosed that since 1949 U.S. reconnaissance ships and planes have been the targets of 41 attacks by the North Koreans...