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Enquirer and News, Tuesday, April 1, 1969 A-5 SSiM il'1! Ik Ms 'Ml i rS Eisenhower Warned Of Military-Industrial Pact iliiliiri'1 liBsbilrP M9 lis The words of the late Dwight D. Eisenhower which will longest be remembered undoubtedly will be his Jan. 17, 1961 warning to the American people to be wary of a military-industrial alliance. How true his words were can be ascertained from a review of the facts, most of them hitherto unknown, regarding the anti-ballistic missile system and how it was first okayed by the White House. It first got the green light from President Johnson in 1967 when he had received rosy intelligence reports about an early end of the war in Vietnam and began looking ahead to the postwar problems that would follow dismantling the Vietnam war machine.

His advisers warned that the weapons industry couldn't be permitted to slow down too abruptly without endangering our military-industrial base. This was Johnson's frame of mind when the Pentagon began making its strongest push for the ABM system. The generals brought him pictorial evidence that the Russians were going ahead with ABM construction, argued that the United States must keep pace. Congressmen whose constituencies would benefit from ABM contracts added to the pressure. The anticipation of a postwar slump was a big factor in swaying the President.

He felt that the ABM system, which would bring new business to as many as 3,000 firms, would tike up the expected economic slack in the vital electronic-missile industry. He was mindful too that 1968 was a political year and that a favorable decision might also bring in some campaign contributions from grateful contractors. LBJ announced the ABM program in his January 1968 budget message. A few days later, the Tct offensive shattered optimism over an early, triumphant mop-up of the Vietnam fighting. FROM Tilt; first, the advocates had trouble Justifying the ABM system.

First, they claimed a "thin line" of anti-ballistic missiles was needed to defend the country against an irrational attack from communist China. They began con- struct ion, however, on a site in Massachusetts, a state located in a corner of the USA least threatened by the Red Chinese. The ABM advocates, hastily backpedaling, next explained that the sites were necessary to protect our cities not only from the Chinese but from the Russians. While acknowledging that a "thin line" could not stop a missile bombardment from the Soviet Union, they suggested it could knock down misfired missiles that might accidentally drop upon a city. There was an outcry from the cities, however, whose residents seemed more concerned that an ABM missile might backfire than that a Soviet missile would misfire.

They feared that the short-range Spring missiles, in particular, would intercept incoming earheads too close to the cities and contribute to the destruction they were supposed to prevent. Once again, the advocates abruptly backpedaled and started back around the mulberry bush. Now, they said, the ABM sites were needed not to protect population centers but to defend the unpopulated areas where our Minuteman missile silos are located. At a recent session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where the doors were closed to permit complete candor, Missouri Sen. Stuart Symington asked how the Pentagon had planned to protect the Minuteman sites a month earlier when the ABM system was still going to be deployed around cities instead of silos.

Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird hemmed and hawed, then turned the question over to Deputy Secretary David Packard. He also hemmed and hawed. The essence of his answer was that the Pentagon previously had means to protect the silos from a Soviet knock-out blow but that the ABM system would offer better protection. Symington is the father of the U.S. Aire Force and knows his defense onions.

He then wanted to know why we should go to he expense of building Spartan and Spring missiles to knock down empty warheads if the purpose was merely to protect Minuteman intercontinental missiles for later launching. Why not fire the Minutemen as soon as the enemy onslaught is detected, rather than fire intermediary missiles so that the Minutemen could be launched later? There was more hemming and hawing. BUT THE $64,000 QUESTION IS whether the ABM system is really needed for defense or as a sop to the military-industrial complex whose appetite for defense dollars is never stated. Already, 22,000 of the nation's largest manufacturers are major defense contractors. Another 100,000 firms contribute through subcontracts to the nation's weaponry.

Together, they employ 10 per cent of the nation's work force. This comprises a lobby which wields tremendous political power, particularly in the congressional districts where the defense plants are located. Even the most economy-minded congressmen are seldom against federal spending in their o.vn constituencies. They should remember, however, Dwight D. Eisenhower's last words as President: "This conjunction of an emmense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in American experience.

(Its) total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, is felt in every city, statehouse, every office in the federal government." Children of the Temple Beth-El religious school par- Horwitz, left holds matzoh bread to explain the ticipated in a model Seder ceremony to acquiant matzoh ritual and David Leiderman, right, holds them with their part in the traditional Passover the Seder plate items. Rabbi Myron Movsky, back service and to educate them for their roles as fu- left, participated in the model Seder instruction. ture adult members of a Jewish household. Randy (Staff Photo by Corwin Wherrett) 8-Day Passover Begins Wednesday special chants and prayers. Gifts to the poor are.

also part of the observance of the Passover festival, which concludes at sunset Thursday, April 10. "Passover is a time similar to the Christian's Christmas holiday and many of our community return to their parental homes for Seder observances," Rabbi Movsky said. don't eat any leavened breads or cakes during the eight-day festival and most eat special Passover foods. Passover Sabbath services will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at Temple Beth-El.

Rabbi Myron Movsky will lead the Temple Beth-El community in a special ritual which glorifies the idea of liberty, the theme stressed in slavery, a mixture of apples, nuts and cinnamon, symbol of sweetness of freedom; and the egg, symbol of life. The door is left open in Jewish households during the Seder to permit symbolic entry of the prophet Elijah and members of the table stand ready to welcome, him with filled glasses of wine. Orthodox Jewish families Ambassador is Devoted to Ireland Members of Temple Beth-El and Jewish people throughout the world will celebrate the eight-day festival of Passover starting Wednesday. 'The holiday, marking the anniversary of mankind's first rising against human bondage, is traditionally ushered in with the Seder feast. Relating of the Haggadah account of the Jews' deliverance from the servitude of Pharaoh in Egypt, the Seder service is conducted by the head of the Jewish household.

Symbolic of the Passover season is matzoh (unleavened bread) dating back to Egyptian times when the Jews were driven out of Egypt in such haste that they did not have time to leaven their bread. Other items found on the Seder table are wine, symbol of gladness, a part of the free man; bitter herbs and a leek, symbol of the bitterness of "The applicant was, to an unusual degree, a congenial and a joyful man," Hogan said in a speech. "Since we are engaged in a somewhat grim business, we look with special favor upon one who is blessed with a happy nature, and who imparts his cheerful mood to all about him." Moore's reputation is the same at Grace, where he often writes humorous verse to salute retiring colleagues. It is the company's program of industrial development in Ireland that has taken him back so often to the land where three of his grandparents were born. "I'm tickled as I can be at the appointment," Moore said as he hurried to a dinner of the Friendly Sons of St.

Mrs. Moore, the former Mary Foote, was the daughter of a Yale chemistry professor, and the Moores' son. John is a recent graduate. Mr. and Mrs.

Moore also have five dauenters and one granddaughter. Moore, who was known as "Big Red" before his closely cropped hair began turning white, practiced law in New York and served as assistant corporation counsel of New York City and then as an assistant district attorney of Manhattan before joining Grace in 1946. District Attorney Frank S. llogan, his boss for three years in the 1940's. reminisced three years ago about leaving him when he presented Moore with the American Irish Historical Society's gold medal.

'How's John Darned if I know how John knows everyone." Moore, 58, son of an engineer, was born Nov. 10, 1910, in Morningside Heights and brought up in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn. He now lives in a large rambling house in Short Hills, New Jersey. While at Yale University and the Yale Law School, Moore paid his way with wages earned as a part-time correspondent for various New York newspapers. Yale still plays a role in Moore's life.

He enthusiastically follows Yale football, and is active in reunion affairs, including a role as unofficial dinner chairman of the class of 1932. NEW YORK John Denis Joseph Moore, a genial six-footer who has visited Ireland for business or pleasure JO times, recently confided to a friend the regret that he could not spend even more time in the homeland of his ancestors. Now he can as ambassador to Ireland. The exuberant vice president of W. R.

Grace Co. also seems sometimes to know everyone in New York. "Bob Hope hollered hello to John at a dinner not long ago, and Paul O'Dwyer stopped us on the street the other day," a friend recalled. "I once met Cardinal Spell-man on an airplane," another associate recalled, "and when he found out I worked for 6 race, he right away asked First Law School The first American law school was established at Litchfield, in 1784. or.

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