Word: recommended
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...raises the disturbing spectre of nuclear warfare. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee early this month. General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the problem bluntly. If faced with a choice between losing Khesanh and using nuclear weapons, Wheeler reportedly said, the Pentagon would recommend "bringing in the nukes...
...President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (read Riots Commission) will probably recommend, unsurprisingly, that up to $20 billion be spent in the cities over the next five years. Skeptics have doubted that such large outlays will ever materialize. They reason that the health of the economy as a whole depends on such heavy Federal spending in the defense complex that there is little left for poverty wars and ghetto reconstruction...
...rumors were apparently touched off by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Eafle Wheeler in a Feb. 1 closed-door appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In response to a hypothetical question from Republican Hawk Strom Thurmond, according to leaked reports, Wheeler said that the Pentagon would indeed recommend use of nukes if the outcome of the Khe Sanh battle depended on their deployment. He had emphasized earlier, however, that he believed Khe Sanh could be held without their use. Moreover, he did not suggest that the President would permit their use even if it was recommended...
Broader Horizons. So far, none of the senates has the right to do more than recommend measures. But priests welcome the forums as an important new way to communicate their views to the bishops-even though not all would agree with Msgr. Francis Maurovich, an adviser to Oakland's Bishop Begin, who describes the senates as "the salvation of the priesthood...
...committee empowered to recommend to Students for a Democratic Socity how to handle Dow's visit appears to be leaning toward a non-obstructive demonstration...