Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Pentagon scheme, seven special task forces of Regular Army troops - more than 15,000 men - have been assigned as an elite service to cope with urban disruption. The riot forces will be dispatched only if the Na tional Guard - which has been undergoing special riot training since its woefully inept performances in Newark and Detroit last summer - cannot...
...night, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was whisked from his villa to a secure haven for the second time in three weeks. So was President Nguyen Van Thieu, as fears spread of Viet Cong again rampaging through Saigon. Six 82-mm. mortar rounds exploded outside the U.S.'s "Pentagon East" headquarters, where General William C. Westmoreland was sleeping. The commander was not hurt, but shell fragments wounded four sentries...
Supplying Icebreakers. Foreseeing that few field soldiers would be able to judge those matters, the Pentagon in 1966 broadened P.W. status to include all captives, taken in or out of combat, in or out of uniform, with three exceptions: terrorists, saboteurs and spies. U.S. troops are now issued individual instruction cards spelling out how to treat prisoners (they "must be protected against violence") and even providing such icebreakers in Vietnamese as "Lay down your gun" ("Buong sung xuong"). After questioning, the prisoners are supposed to be turned over to the South Vietnamese for detention...
...response to angry criticism by home-front scientists, the Pentagon last week released a detailed study of the use and effects of herbicides. Although the report was preliminary and limited, its conclusions were clear: so far, there is no evidence that there will be long-range damage to plant or animal life in South Viet...
...scientific articles, studied scientific and press reports from Viet Nam, and interviewed more than 140 U.S. ecologists and herbicide experts, but were not authorized to conduct on-the-spot investigations in Viet Nam. Sensitive to possible charges that MRI is biased (it has many lucrative Government contracts), the Pentagon asked the National Academy of Sciences for an evaluation of the report before releasing it. The Academy called the report "creditable," but also pointed out that definitive conclusions will require more research and data...