Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird told a stormy session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that the United States has not escalated air strikes over North Vietnam.
Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the committee, and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), former secretary of the Air Force, sharply disagreed with Laird.
Calabresi agreed with DeBakey that to avoid life-saving because of increasing population is fallacious. He said, "Not saving people who could die is a hell of a way of population control."
Both men looked forward to less costly, more successful and universal heart transplants but stressed the need for consideration of human values to keep pace with technology. DeBakey said, "We must keep in mind that as we move forward in our development, compassing constitutes a very important factor."
Laird also disputed charges that the public had been misled over reconnaissance flights in the North and the purpose of the raid on the Son Tay prison compound there. He was appearing before the committee to defend an administration request for $340 million in supplemental military aid this fiscal year...