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...third-floor of fice of the Pentagon's E-Ring could not have assumed command at a more critical juncture. As Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, was sworn in last week as the nation's ninth Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert S. McNamara, the U.S. once again stood at a crossroads in Viet Nam-perhaps the most important one. And it is Clifford who, from the massive desk once owned by General of the Armies John ("Black Jack") Pershing, will play a major and possibly decisive role in determining which path the U.S. takes...
...question confronting Clifford and every other top policymaker from the President on down is whether to commit scores of thousands of additional troops to Viet Nam to regain the momentum lost when the Communists launched their Tet offensive in January. U.S. commanders are pleading for 100,000 to 200,000 more troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. Seven or eight separate plans are under study at the Pentagon, all calling for sizable reinforcements and all entailing substantial political risks for the President...
...error and his inability to get along with Congress. "There is a way for a man to say no without offending, and there is a way for a man to say yes without offending," said one of the key men on Capitol Hill. "McNamara could not do either. Clark Clifford can do both...
...minutes earlier the Faculty voted down by about a three-to-one margin an amendment by Clifford C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, assistant professor of Anthropology. The amendment would have retained the two-year requirement, while following the CEP's recommendation that the students who have not satisfied the requirement when they enter would have to take a language course during their freshman year...
...CLIFFORD A. HOIEN...