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Later Humphrey withdrew his statement after Clark Clifford stated the Administration had "no intention" of withdrawing troops "either by next June or at anytime in the foreseeable future." The Secretary of Defense added that "we have not yet reached the level of 549,500 troops set up by President Johnson" and that "we intend to continue to build toward that level...
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford inaugurated the new stance by directing that the $5.5 billion Sentinel anti-ballistic-missile program be exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles...
...National Press Club speech, Clifford also called for the retention of a large U.S. ground force in Europe, which until recently was the target of powerful congressional economizers. "The events of the past few weeks have clearly demonstrated that a significant American military presence in Western Europe is still needed," the Defense Secretary said...
...Dean Rusk, has been in no mood to yield to the North Vietnamese demand that the U.S. halt all bombing of the North as the price of advancing the Paris negotiations. Rather, Washington insists that Hanoi make some parallel gesture. "All they have to do," said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford last week, "is get word to us that they have reduced the level of combat and will continue to reduce the level of combat, and that that constitutes a de-escalatory step." What Washington wants is private or public assurances from Hanoi to the effect that it intends to reduce...
...experts doubt it, and consider MIRV as superfluous and dangerous as the proposed "thin" anti-ballistic missile system. The critics argue that both unnecessarily super-intensify an arms race that ought rather to be slowing down. On the other hand, some disarmament specialists agree with Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, who maintains that developments like MIRV are necessary for the U.S. to "negotiate from strength, not weakness." The Soviets themselves are currently pushing ahead with an ABM system, their own as yet undeveloped MIRVs, an orbiting missile system, and a version of Polaris. Moscow and Washington have agreed to discuss...