Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the course of the study, representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could not provide a realistic enough contingency in which they would want to use biological weapons, but they argued nonetheless against the destruction of the germ stocks and the ban on offensive germ-warfare research. The Joint Chiefs contended, unsuccessfully, that the U.S. should preserve its option to "retaliate in kind" to germ attacks from the enemy-specifically, Russia...
Fantastic Story. When the story finally broke in some detail, it was largely because of the digging of a freelance writer who, to complete his research, had to get a $1,000 grant from a foundation. Seymour M. Hersh, 32, had been a police reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau, a Pentagon reporter for A.P. and a press secretary for Eugene McCarthy. Hersh had written a book on chemical and biological warfare, and he was working on another about the Pentagon when one of his contacts called him in Washington around...
...charge of murdering 70 to 75 Vietnamese civilians." Hersh put aside his book and started tracking down information that led to an interview with Calley on Nov. 9. He wrote the story the next day, and having failed to interest LIFE and Look when he began his research, decided to peddle it through a Washington outfit called Dispatch News Service...
...School faculty will discuss the Cambridge Project-which uses Harvard and M.I.T. computers for social and behavioral science research-at a meeting on December...
...create a committee, including some people not primarily interested in the particular kind of work envisioned in the Cambridge Project, to develop plans for Harvard participation in this area, to seek diversified funding, and to consider policy and ethical issues which may arise in connection with computer-based social research and data banks...