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Since he moved into the Pentagon's E Ring two months ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford has spent most of his working hours learning the intricacies of his new job and supervising a broad review of the nation's Viet Nam effort. Last week, in his first public address since he joined the Cabinet, Clifford sounded sanguine enough. "We concluded," he told the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan, "that the increased effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort-and in due time to begin...
Whether or not Clifford's optimism on Viet Nam proves to be justified, he faces another battle with even larger implications for the nation's security. From Robert McNamara, Clifford inherited responsibility for the nation's long-range defense planning, a process that must necessarily be programmed from five to ten years ahead. McNamara's legacy was an $80 billion 1969 budget and elaborate blueprints projecting the nation's defenses into the next decade...
...Hanoi conducted the delicate diplomatic exchanges that could lead to negotiations, the U.S. last week announced a major shift in the strategy of the Viet Nam war and named a new commander to carry it out. The strategy, set forth in his first press conference by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is a decision by the U.S. to turn the war gradually over to the South Vietnamese and to give them the firepower and backing to wage it effectively. The new man in Viet Nam is General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 53, who will succeed General William C. West moreland, soon...
...before the decision to move ARVN toward taking over the brunt of the fighting, Abrams fought to rearm the South Vietnamese with the best U.S. weaponry, and the first ARVN units received M-16 rifles late last year. Now the supply will be speeded up-and broadened. Defense Secretary Clifford announced last week a dramatic increase in the U.S. production of the M-16 so as to equip all ARVN units by midsummer. The South Vietnamese will also be issued a new type of improved mortar, more armored personnel carriers, better communications equipment. They will also get more helicopter support...
Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London...