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Jones wants to strengthen considerably the powers of the Chairman. Even on critical budget matters, Jones would permit the Chairman to override the other services and make his own recommendations to the Secretary. He would decide such priorities as whether the Navy should grow to 600 combat ships or the Air Force should get both of the new strategic bombers it wants. Under Jones' plan the Chairman would also be in charge of overall strategic planning. Currently, such questions as, for example, what kind of military presence the U.S. should maintain in the Indian Ocean as against the Persian...
...this debate I was in a lonely position. I was a hawk on defense and a dove on SALT, earning opponents on both sides. I was convinced we had to strengthen conventional forces. But I also saw an important role for SALT in our national security policy. I did not believe that arms control could by itself ease tensions. Indeed, if not linked to some restraint of the geopolitical competition, strategic arms control might become a safety valve for Soviet expansionism. Every tune there was a Soviet aggressive move, there would be appeals that the new tensions now made arms...
...ultimate task is to strengthen peace in the world. The American people expect it from their leaders; the nuclear age imposes it as a moral and practical necessity. We can resist aggressive policies best from a platform of peace; men and women of good will and decency can be enlisted only in support of a policy of positive aspirations...
Opponents of the policy change have said that there is no such thing as a "good" loan to South Africa and that any loan merely serves to strengthen the apartheid policies of the government
...Salvador." In November, the Conference of Bishops reaffirmed that position, with only a dozen members at the meeting dissenting. As Archbishop Hickey has argued, the Catholic leaders fear a Communist takeover in El Salvador but nonetheless are against sending in U.S. arms. The bishops' rationale: the weapons will strengthen repressive elements in the security forces and, says Bishop Raymond A. Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., drive more and more people "into the hills and into the hands of the guerrillas." Says Auxiliary Bishop John E. McCarthy of Galveston-Hous-ton: "Those 22-year-old rebels are not risking their...