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Most startling, Laird proposed saving $185 million a year by curtailing one of the more effective weapons that the U.S. has in Viet Nam: B-52 raids. Despite what he called a "strong recommendation" from General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, Laird suggested reducing B-52 sorties by more than 10%, from 1,800 to 1,600 per month. The savings would come chiefly in the planes' 30-ton bomb loads, which cost $42,000. There would be little tactical impact; probably the same number of B-52 missions will be flown as before, but they...
...Italian campaign), he was sent by the Army to Princeton after the war for a master's degree in engineering and a doctorate in international relations. His thesis: "National Technology and International Politics." Assigned to Viet Nam last July as deputy commander of U.S. forces under General Creighton Abrams, he was temporarily brought home at Nixon's request last December to help the incoming Administration formulate its defense policy. When he takes over in Brussels in July, he should provide the President and the alliance with a strong if muted voice, sensitive ears and a fine sense...
More often than not, their queries were answered fully. In Saigon, the businessmen conferred with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commander of American forces in Viet Nam. As one businessman summed it up afterwards, Abrams "made no claims and promised no quick victories. He merely demonstrated that we were in control of the situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity...
...Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau. In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency are assembling a rosy picture of a seriously weakened enemy and a greatly improved South Vietnamese military machine, a vision shared by U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams and his headquarters in Saigon. But the Defense Department's civilian-dominated Bureau of International Security Affairs is far more skeptical...
...Creighton's Restaurant Fort Lauderdale...