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Search for a Gambit. To recoup some of the ground it has lost, the Administration last week was groping for a saving gambit. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the U.S. would throw an electronic barrier across the 17th parallel to stem infiltration from the North (see following story), which could result in reduced bombing of the North and thus help to placate Washington critics of the war. At the United Nations, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg was trying to line up support for a new bid to the Security Council to undertake a settlement...
Secret Weapon. Marines are fighting ferociously guarding the DMZ in 1967, but the invasion continues unabated. And so, in an effort to stanch this wound, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara last week confirmed long-rumored plans for a 47-mile barrier across Viet Nam just below the DMZ. It will stretch from the South China Sea to Laos, running only 25 miles south of the two great walls of Dong Hoi and Truong Duc, erected in the 1630s by the Nguyen dynasty to fend off the warring Trinh emperors of the North...
Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts of rugged, mountainous jungle will be guarded by hidden electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better...
McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
...real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...