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...Johnson Administration's effort in current Geneva negotiations to reduce tariff barriers across the board by 50% . Last week, after his appointment to the Cabinet was announced, he was still reluctant to back down. Said he: "I consider myself at the midpoint between a strict protectionist and an all-out free trader. I am against arbitrary 50% tariff cuts across the board for U.S. manufactured goods. Each reduction should also be made on a reciprocal basis with foreign competitors...
Lorelei Umbrella. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara started off in NATO's huge conference room, nicknamed the Cathedral, by once again trying to answer the basic Gaullist suspicion that the U.S. might not defend Europe. In case of an all-out war, said McNamara, the alternative of "Europe or the U.S." did not exist in Washington planning. In nuclear terms, an attack on Western Europe would be an attack on the U.S. As proof, McNamara pointed out that the U.S. has placed in NATO more than 800 ICBMs, more than 300 Polaris missiles and hundreds of bombers. The aggregate yield...
...strategy, there are points of obvious conflict. France, Italy and West Germany object to the U.S. emphasis upon "flexible response" if it means that NATO would not employ even tactical nuclear weapons against Communist aggression. Bonn understandably balks at any strategy that places the Rhine as the point at which all-out retaliation would begin. Recent training exercises by French troops indicated that French generals are more interested in defending French territory than in meshing with NATO. And all the other allies shudder at the prospect of giving quarreling NATO members Greece and Turkey any sort of access...
Crain went out fast in an all-out effort to break up the Midshipman huddle of runners, and finished a respectable eighth. It was the third year that Bill finished in the top ten in the Hops...
...Miller should know. Initially, he had envisioned a month of talking to G.O.P. groups, binding up the post-convention wounds as only a former G.O.P. National Committee chairman with acquaintances throughout the party could do. Then an all-out campaign to woo independent and Democratic votes, backed up with a heavy nationwide TV coverage. Instead, Miller found himself on a weary treadmill, trying to explain the various positions taken by his standardbearer...