Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platoon leader in The Netherlands during World War II. Since then, journalistic service has taken him to other wars: the Hungarian Revolution, the Congo uprising and Viet Nam. For the past six years, his Washington assignment has kept him close to the long, echoing corridors of the Pentagon. Laurence Barrett, who wrote the cover story, put in three years covering the Pentagon for the New York Herald Tribune. He claims no added skills from his Army career as a private first class. Nor does Senior Editor Ronald Kriss, who served as a specialist three in Korea...
...fronts: 1) With his approval, the Federal Reserve Board moved to intensify the squeeze on cred it. 2) At a meeting with domestic policymakers at his Key Biscayne retreat, he reviewed efforts to trim the budget enough to produce a surplus of at least $4 billion. Earlier, the Pentagon announced some cutbacks in Viet Nam spending that might be merely budgetary -but might also be a signal to Hanoi of deescalation...
Both the White House and the Pentagon publicly insisted that the B-52 move was "strictly budgetary." But there was considerable speculation that the cutback, coming at a time when the Communists are pressing an offensive, was intended primarily as a political signal to Hanoi, indicating Washington's eagerness to end the war. Fueling such speculation was Laird's admission that "private"-i.e., secret-talks aimed at a settlement are under way in Paris. In addition, New York Times Columnist James Reston claimed that Nixon may go further, by withdrawing as many as 100,000 troops this year...
...time since pre-Pearl Harbor days has the vast organism created to protect the nation against foreign enemies been under such furious homefront attack. No segment is immune: the uniformed professionals, their civilian colleagues and superiors at the Pentagon, their supporters in Congress, their suppliers among big business and big labor?all feel the criticism and distrust from several directions at once. Students, intellectuals, pacifists and the New Left have long been opponents. Now they are being joined by more influential voices from the center and even the right. Congress, until recently amenable to almost any proposal from the military...
...uniforms during drill and will take ordinary government courses instead of military courses. In other words, the same ideology will be taught without the "militarist" trappings. The Harvard Corporation has also played a leading role in keeping ROTC on American campuses. It has set up direct negotiations with the Pentagon and coordinated its activities with the presidents and trustees of seven other ivy league colleges to keep "their" army functioning smoothly...