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...ARMY RESERVES AND THE NATIONAL GUARD. McNamara's efforts to merge the two forces were blocked by Congress, and Clifford seems disposed to leave them separate because of what he calls "the inherent differences existing between...
...Second Toughest Job. Clifford will have to do a good deal more if he is to succeed in what Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis describes as "the second most difficult job in the Government, second only to the presidency, and perhaps the second most difficult job in the world...
McNamara left the Pentagon in the best shape, managerially speaking, it has ever been in. Inevitably he also left behind a spate of unresolved problems that Clifford must confront even if he is only in office through next January in a caretaker role, as some officials expect. Chief among them...
...SOVIET MISSILES. Though McNamara vowed that the U.S. would always maintain a sizable lead over the Russians, many Congressmen were alarmed by his report that Moscow has more than doubled its land-based intercontinental-ballistic-missile force, to 720, in a year. Clifford agrees that the U.S. "must be superior" in missile strength...
...MANNED BOMBERS. McNamara had no use for them, felt strategic missiles were less vulnerable and more efficient. Clifford has said that "my inclination, which is a visceral one, is to say categorically yes" to developing a new bomber. The fact that the Strategic Air Command has now canceled B-52 airborne alert flights-simulated runs on Communist targets, with nuclear bombs aboard-in the wake of the Greenland crash in which four hydrogen bombs were lost, could, however, bring the usefulness of a new manned bomber into question...