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...Josh Tyrangiel. Reported by Amy Bonesteel...
DIED. General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, 68, commander in chief of the United Nations troops in Korea (1966-69); after a long illness; in Alexandria, Va. Bonesteel served as operational planner for the Normandy invasion under General Omar Bradley and after the war helped lay the groundwork for the Marshall Plan. Throughout the '60s and '70s he repeatedly called for expanded conventional-as opposed to nuclear-capabilities...
Though part of the harassment is an effort to distract U.S. attention from South Viet Nam, the bigger reason for North Korea's provocations is to divert its own people's thoughts from their deepening economic troubles. "The Communist actions," says General Charles Bonesteel III, the United Nations and U.S. Eighth Army commander in Korea, "are nasty and vicious, but they amount largely to frustrated impotency...
...strengthened conventional capability has been on for some time, particularly in the Pentagon, where the Army and Air Force have been leaking cascades of "papers," "memos" and rumors in an attempt to outpoint each other. Army conventional-war strategists scored high points last May, when Major General Charles H. Bonesteel III. now special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepared a memo that is the backbone of the new doctrine. Wrote Bonesteel: "Continued primary reliance on massive nuclear retaliation to deter all forms of aggression will limit the United States' strategy to a choice between...
Last week General Emmons moved on again. Ramrod-stiff Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, fresh from the command of the infantry school at Fort Benning, took over the bustling Pacific Coast, now safe from Jap attack. Delos Emmons' new job was kept a secret. Airmen wondered whether the Army Air Forces was going to get capable, pernickety General Emmons back again...