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Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
...specialist for the Defense Department. In recent years, however, he has severed connections with all Government projects and thus is free to speak out on U.S. nuclear and weapons policies. Speak out he does. Last week at the University of Washington, Lapp not only criticized the U.S. decision to deploy a thin anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system, but also pointed out the damage the system could wreak on the very population it was intended to protect...
...villa. An M-16 rifle was in one hand, Rademaekers said, while he carried on a long-distance teletype "conversation" with Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman. Somehow, he had to keep an eye cocked for Viet Cong, keep track of the fighting swirling through the city, and deploy his own reportorial forces...
Last week, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford & Co. got their anti-ballistic-missile system. In the midst of an otherwise eloquent address on the danger of a new arms race. Defense Secretary McNamara announced that the U.S. would begin to deploy a $5 million "thin" system principally to protect our Minuteman ICBM silos...
...present, the Administration will need no additional funds. The current $70 billion defense budget, approved only last week, includes $817 million for development and deployment of the system; another $168 million was appropriated last year for work on Nike X but never used. The decision to deploy the "thin" defense does not preclude future agreement with Moscow-though once U.S. and Russian ABMs are in place, it will be difficult to dismantle them. Further, the thin line could later be thickened if U.S. strategists concluded that Moscow posed a real threat of a missile attack...