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...Tell Me." Indeed, the Administration has fallen into the habit of talking as though the war in Viet Nam were already over. Nixon is fond of repeating, almost casually, the claim that "we are ending the longest war in the history of the U.S." Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird not long ago startled top aides at the outset of his weekly military briefing by ordering: "Don't tell me about Viet Nam now. I don't want to hear about it until the end." Viet Nam always used to be first on his agenda. Now U.S. officials seem...
...time of tentative détente in Europe, the Soviet threat is posed not in the stark terms of war but in the gray area of geopolitics. As Defense Secretary Melvin Laird put it: "If the Russians have a superior military force, they can gain their political objectives throughout the world without the use of weapons. There is no military ad vantage to overkill, but the political gains are tremendous." British Prime Minister Edward Heath outlined this gloomy scenario in a recent speech to the House of Commons: "The Soviets may calculate that eventually the sheer disparity of military strength...
...stalled, the military had to rely on voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments. Although, ironically, recruiting figures rose over the summer months, the Pentagon insisted that it could not function much longer without draftees. Finally the White House began a massive lobbying campaign, with President Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird applying the pressure. They avoided argument on the Mansfield amendment and on military pay increases that are designed eventually to make an all-volunteer army possible...
THERE was more than a little skepticism last spring when U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the Soviets "have a new swing-wing bomber under development" with "intercontinental range capability." Cynics pooh-poohed the "Big Swinger" as a propaganda ploy for the Air Force, which was trying to convince Congress that the U.S. should go ahead with the development of its own swing-wing supersonic bomber, the B1. But the doubts have proved unjustified. The new Soviet strategic bomber, officially designated "Backfire" by NATO, has been spotted and tracked during a number of test flights from the Ramenskoye...
...value during its first full week of floating against the yen. TRADE. The Treasury Department ruled that more than $1.5 billion of imported goods in transit to U.S. ports or in bonded warehouses on Aug. 15 were exempt from the 10% import surtax. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the U.S. would sell 175 F-4 Phantom jets to West Germany for $1 billion. Laird said that the decline of the value of the dollar in relation to the Deutsche Mark, which in effect cuts the price of the fighters for the West Germans, helped make the sale possible...