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...increase in Thai activity in Cambodia. Nevertheless, in the joint U.S.-China communique signed in Shanghai on February 27, the U.S. side stipulated that it will "progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes." Last week Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird emphasized that Vietnam is a focal point of tension in the area...
...Chiefs of Staff, warned that China was well on its way to becoming "the third most important nuclear power in the world." The U.S., he said, must have the ability to wage nuclear war against both China and the Soviet Union at the same time. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird also reported that the Chinese now have a few medium-range missiles (500 to 1,000 miles, by some estimates), some intermediate-range missiles (up to 2,000 miles) and should have an intercontinental missile (3,000 to 6,000 miles) by 1975. Nor does China find it any easier...
...inner ear. But no amount of pancake and greasepaint and well-placed Fresnels could gloss Nixon's profound physical gracelessness. There is a fatal slowness about the man that pervades his surprise announcements on national television with the forced enthusiasm and unsuccessful electricity of Ed Sullivan bringing on Baldy Laird and his Vietnamese Dancing Bear as the headliner of another really big show...
...command believes that any offensive will fail, partly because the Viet Cong structure is currently so weak that the North Vietnamese army will be fighting virtually alone. American military experts also concede, though, that the NVA could wreak some "spectaculars," including the seizure of some towns. Even Defense Secretary Laird, who claims 100% confidence in Vietnamization, predicts only that Saigon's troops will win 75% of its battles...
That fleet will certainly include a powerful armada of nuclear-powered, missile-carrying submarines. Currently the Russians' most potent undersea weapon is the Y-class sub, called Yankee in American navy parlance, which is comparable in size and speed to the U.S. Polaris. As Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird will probably disclose in testimony to Congress this week, the Soviets now have in commission or under construction 42 Yankees. They are adding new ones at a present annual rate of twelve a year while the U.S. years ago leveled off its Polaris fleet at 41. The Russians are developing...