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...Food for Buzzards. The prognosis for the state's horses, however, is poor. Supplies of antiencephalitis vaccine, which is still in the experimental stage, are limited. Aerial spraying of mosquito-breeding areas was begun too late to kill many of the disease-bearing insects. "We've kind of lost this battle," says Dr. P.R. Henry, chief of the federal task force. "The mosquitoes laden with virus got to the horses before we could protect them...
...Sevin. It is not as toxic or long-lived as DDT, but just as surely kills the caterpillars. Nonetheless, environmentalists strongly oppose Sevin because it is fatal to fresh-water insects, fingerling fish and bees. Heeding the environmentalists' warnings, residents of most infested areas this year voted against aerial spraying of pesticides and settled back to let nature take its course...
...Another reaction was to blame environmentalists for the infestation. Because he recommended no aerial spraying of pesticides, Elmer Madsen of the Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is keeping me awake." This month three aspirants for political office in Bristol announced that they would run on an ecological backlash ticket. Their theme: Spray pesticides next year...
...groups had decided that the tactic would not succeed. The groups worked independently of each other, but their conclusions were the same. An interagency task force headed by Assistant to the Under Secretary of State William H. Sullivan predicted that North Viet Nam would be able to withstand an aerial attack, and rather than breaking national morale, the bombing would stiffen North Vietnamese resistance...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff were adamant in their opposition: General Wheeler called McNamara's proposal "an aerial Dienbienphu." McNamara's disenchantment grew; by May 1967 he was advocating a political settlement in Viet Nam that would include non-Communist members of the National Liberation Front. A month after McNamara's resignation as Defense Secretary, President Johnson withdrew from the presidential race and ordered a partial bombing halt along the lines that McNamara had suggested earlier. TET AFTERMATH. In a secret report to President Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wheeler presented a more pessimistic assessment...