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Very Disappointing. In a sharply worded memo, Nixon termed the economizing effort "very disappointing" and ordered another try. A prime target, of course, is the Defense Department. Nixon wants Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to sweat $2 billion out of the $80 billion budget. In his first attempt, Laird managed to cut only $550 million. Nixon told him to try again, and this time Laird brought the reductions up to $1.1 billion, chiefly in "ground munitions," including the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which will take a $34 million...
...Kafkaesque institutions. At a time when more and more citizens are questioning the degree to which they control their own destinies, the military, with its rigid hierarchy, its demand for total obedience, and above all, its tropistic reaching-out for ever more armaments, is an obvious?and perhaps valid?target. An increasing number of officers, to be sure, are getting broad educations and display considerable political and social sensitivity. Still, the military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness and even narrowness, rarely copes well with the challenge of dissent. Thus, a military court meted out what seemed unconscionably...
...suffered a serious shake in 30 months. Actually, the Seabees were preparing for a possible upheaval of a far different sort. In the past few months, relations between the U.S. and Peru have been disintegrating so rapidly that American diplomats fear that the embassy may become a target for mob violence...
...prominent "students of American history" were asked to rate the Presidents. Eisenhower received a low "average" rating, ranking 22nd among the first 34, just above Andrew Johnson. Today he would probably receive a higher mark. The staff system he brought to the White House, for example?a target of ridicule in the late '50s and early '60s?is now seen as his valuable addition to the presidency. No President since World war II had been more resistant to the demands of the military than General Eisenhower. "We must guard," he said, "against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly...
...only a matter of time before Government trustbusters stopped talking about cracking down on conglomerates and actually did something. After repeated warnings, the Justice Department last week singled out one of the largest of those multi-industry companies, Ling-Temco-Vought, as its first major target. The trustbusters announced that by mid-April they intend to file suit to force LTV to dispose of its 63% holding in Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...