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...losses did not deter American bombers. Swooping in low, they blasted eight oil dumps and an assortment of bridges, trucks, trains and barges in 702 separate missions over North Viet Nam. Most spectacular strikes were against the cratered ruins of a bombed-out North Vietnamese army camp at Badon, 75 miles north of the 17th parallel. For six successive days Air Force F-4C Phantoms dumped new bombs into the craters-which exploded into towering columns of greasy black smoke. Looking for hiding places for his remaining petroleum supplies, Uncle Ho had turned the camp into an oil dump...
...Deter attacks by disgruntled heirs and creditors-largely because the trust, unlike probate, is an unpublicized fait accompli...
...conventional forces. The threat of nuclear death would prevent overt Communist aggression, went the theory, and the rest would not matter. But it has been the rest-in Viet Nam and elsewhere-that has caused much of the trouble in the past decade. Nuclear weapons not only failed to deter mischief, but could not, in sanity, be used to quash it. Moved partly by Nikita Khrushchev's famous "wars of national liberation" speech, in which he indicated that Russia regarded guerrilla warfare as the Communist strategy of the future, the Kennedy Administration abandoned massive retaliation in favor...
...scope of that system remains in question. Though the purpose of the U.S. ICBM missile system is ostensibly defensive rather than offensive, this country has at present no anti-missile defense system. We have depended, since the beginning of the nuclear race, on the threat of retalliation to deter potential aggression. Both the U.S. and the USSR have relied on increasing offensive capacity to cause nuclear stalemate. Defensive systems such as Nike-X have been considered useless in view of bipolar balance, for the very practical reason that such a system would probably be in effective in case...
...hard-liner on Latin American affairs. He himself insisted, "I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...