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Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced early today that U. S. warplanes are hitting North Vietnamese missile and antiaircraft gun positions "in response to attacks on our unarmed reconnaissance aircraft...
...stockholders and customers. The Soviets have sought to buy computers from IBM, but so far the company does not seem eager to do much business with them. Henry Ford was invited to build a truck plant in Russia, but he backed away from the proposal after Defense Secretary Melvin Laird publicly warned that Ford's trucks might ultimately end up rumbling down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Pisar thinks that that was a mistake. He asks: "What could have been a greater admission of the economic failure of Communism than to invite Henry Ford, the epitome of American capitalism...
Although he was promoted to Chief of Naval Operations only four months ago, Zumwalt already has demonstrated that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird acted shrewdly in selecting him over 33 senior admirals. Zumwalt is proving unusually well-equipped in both inclination and experience to tackle the two most pressing challenges now facing all of the armed services: to retain and attract more volunteers at a time of widespread youthful antagonism toward the military, and to maintain U.S. security despite the curtailment of defense budgets...
...overcome volunteers' reluctance, the Pentagon stressed higher pay as a major attraction. A recent pay increase raised the salary of new recruits in all services to $124.50 a month; Laird proposed that by next January it be jumped again to $149.40. Kelley suggested that added pay of $30 to $150 a month be given to soldiers and Marines who volunteer for the least desirable duties with infantry, artillery or armor units, which normally come under fire in combat. This would be on top of present hostile fire...
...cost of making the Army attractive to enough volunteers? Possibly an extra $8 billion a year, according to Laird's rough guess. Thus there remains a serious question as to whether a volunteer Army would attract enough manpower to back up the U.S.'s worldwide commitments. Why is it being pushed so hard right now? Asked if the timing were political, Melvin Laird could not suppress a smile. "I don't know how you came to that conclusion," he replied...