Word: siders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington-based Correspondent Don Sider, reporting this week's cover story on the state of the nation's defense required a four-week investigative campaign that included interviews with most of the Pentagon's top brass. All told, Sider met face to face with 45 military experts, including David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; and NATO Commander Bernard W. Rogers. "There's a certain affinity that reporters and military folks have for each other," Sider observes...
...Sider that understanding runs particularly deep. He was introduced to the military at the age of six-at Wyler Military Academy in Evansville, Wis. Though his mid-1950s Army stint as a public information specialist provided little in the way of battleground adventure, his 16 months as a TIME war correspondent in Viet Nam did. Says Sider, who was wounded in the neck near the Laotian border: "It was the thrilling Hemingway life at last: danger, excitement and mud." On a working vacation last July, Sider took a flying leap into another Army experience: paratrooper training at the Fort Benning...
...soon constructed water-desalinization and electrical-power plants to make the base self-sufficient. In accordance with the treaty, the U.S. sends. Castro a token rent of $4,000 each year. But for 19 years Castro has let the checks pile up uncashed. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Sider made one of the rare visits to the isolated base permitted outsiders. His report...
Volkswagen's moves are certain to cause other foreign automakers to recon sider their plans for producing in the U.S. Volvo, which two years ago canceled plans to start production at the plant it owns in Chesapeake, Va., might be tempted to produce its new lightweight "Car of the Eighties" there. The Japanese, who face much the same currency problem as the Germans, are bound to consider American production seriously as a way to stop Volkswagen from regaining for good its old dominance over them...
...country tour of the area by Harold Brown−the first visit ever to the Middle East by an incumbent U.S. Secretary of Defense. "The trip is intended as a demonstration that the U.S. recognizes the strategic importance of the region," a senior defense official told TIME Correspondent Don Sider, who accompanied Brown. "It is our purpose to convey the reassurance that we will stand by our friends against external threats...