Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 16, turn-ins were organized across the country to begin an anti-war, anti-draft week that would culminate in a march on the Pentagon "to confront the warmakers." In Boston, 237 men, including 23 Harvard students, burned or turned in their cards. In New York, Baton Rogue, and San Francisco the scene was the same. In Oakland, California, all through the week, anti-war demonstrators trying to march on the induction center there battled police, and the New York Times showed you the blood on the front page...
Measuring the flow of North Vietnamese men and materiel into South Viet Nam is no easy task. The most telling evidence arrives at the Pentagon and the White House in the form of sharp, 9-in.-square photographs ferried by Air Force courier planes from Asia each day. The pictures, showing Ho's men on the move, are the product of the most sustained, highly sophisticated aerial surveillance in military history...
...Fulbright was taking potshots at the Pentagon's $660 million military-science research program, the $80 billion defense budget was getting a discouraging reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
Foster argued that the Pentagon needed research into politics, economics, anthropology and a plethora of other subjects apparently unconnected with war in order to spot future crises-and perhaps prevent them from degenerating into shooting. "Thinking about national security today," Foster insisted, "must include some explicit analysis of many factors that 50 years ago probably would have been neglected." Fulbright was unmollified, echoing his disquiet over the Pentagon's influence on U.S. foreign policy that expanded under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "What you are really saying," Fulbright retorted, "is that the civilian heads of the Department of Defense...
...keep starlight scopes from potential enemies and dedicated Peeping Toms, the Pentagon has so far restricted private sales. But eventually the scopes may be adapted for civilian purposes. Astronomers have already used similar devices to increase the power of their telescopes. With the technology now largely declassified, demand may build up among police, underwater explorers and airline pilots-anyone, in fact, who has a legitimate reason for wanting to see in the dark...