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...simply foolhardy," says Laird, "not to make maximum use of the great talent, wisdom and experience available through the Joint Chiefs of Staff and within the services." Before his press conference last week, Laird thoroughly briefed General Earle Wheeler, J.C.S. chairman, on what was to be announced. The first thing the Secretary did after the conference was to give Wheeler a full rundown of the question-and-answer segment. Says the general: "The tenor of doing business in the Pentagon has changed, and it is a productive change...
...oldest personal friends, Assistant Secretary for Administration Robert Froehlke, in a coordinator's role over the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency to ensure that they com- plement each other rather than work at cross purposes. He has set up a Domestic Action Council within the Pentagon to contribute to Government antipoverty efforts. He has downgraded the Office of International Security Affairs, one of McNamara's favorite shops, which acted as a little State Department within the Pentagon. Now it is more concerned with performing studies for the National Security Council...
...goes well, within the next few months negotiators from the U.S. and the Soviet Union will start preliminary discussions that will lead to one of the most auspicious developments in more than two decades of the cold war: strategic arms limitation talks, already known by the odd acronym SALT. The aim of SALT is to slow down the ever more costly investment by both superpowers in nuclear weaponry that is increasingly sophisticated and deadly...
Tidy and appealing as such hypotheses may seem, enormous obstacles stand in the way of their becoming reality. For example, even on the point of a mutual moratorium on further MIRV testing there is disagreement within the Nixon Administration itself: the Pentagon strongly wants to press ahead with MIRV, while Gerard Smith, who has been designated the chief U.S. SALT negotiator, made it known last week that he thinks a MIRV test ban should be the first item of business with the Soviet Union. Secretary of State William Rogers put it mildly last week when he said: "There...
...Within the Soviet Union, the invasion produced intense disaffection, particularly among intellectuals. For the first time in Soviet history, groups of dissident intellectuals publicly defied the regime in protest. "The secret police have really been shaken by what has happened in the past year," says Russian Author Anatoly Kuznetsov, who last month defected to the West. Kuznetsov may be exaggerating somewhat. But it is no exaggeration to say that the Kremlin has reacted harshly, tightening police controls, jailing some intellectuals and firing others from important posts on journals and newspapers...