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...Administration also won the backing of 16 former defense and national security officials-including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert McNamara and Melvin Laird- who gathered at the White House to proclaim their support. Said Kissinger: "I believe the sale is essential for the peace process in the Middle East." The Administration hopes to pick up Jimmy Carter's public support after he returns from the Sadat funeral...
...trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs of Shelley Winters. The Harrison book, on the other hand, is so baroque that it seems like the whimsical indulgence of a laird with enough money to buy into NATO...
Otis: I go 100% with any force that is obtained first by volunteers and only thereafter by some sort of conscription. You also need registration to speed up mobilization. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Laird; registration confronts youth with their national commitment...
...Laird: I have no problem with drafting into the reserves; I have no problem with registration. But the only current solution available to you-and I hate to get back to this-is to use some money. Do you think that you could get the draft for the reserves through Congress...
...Laird: It was a very good draft, a fair draft. We put in the lottery system and did away with the college deferments...