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DEFENSE Secretary Melvin Laird visited South Viet Nam last week for a first-hand look at the effectiveness of the Nixon Administration's policies. Laird went into the field togged out in fatigues and a baseball cap, and announced on departure that "Vietnamization is working." It is "on schedule in some places and ahead of schedule in others," he reported. "We face formidable but manageable problems ahead...
While Secretary Laird was in Viet Nam, TIME'S Saigon correspondents -Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, Robert Anson and Burton Pines-sat down to compare their own informed assessments of the present state of the war. Among their comments...
After Richard Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird decided in October to ease Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey out of his job, it appeared that the right successor would be hard to find. Forty names were considered for the position in what Administration aides came to call the great man hunt. Firm offers went to several men whose polite replies, when translated, amounted to "Hell, no, I won't go." The Selective Service System, after all, is vilified by many youngsters, attacked and second-guessed on Capitol Hill, and burdened with an archaic network of local boards that constitute...
Athletic Types. Nixon and Laird originally wanted a man without military persona, someone who, unlike Lieut. General Hershey, 76, would be youth-oriented and attractive to the reformist critics of the present draft system. A couple of university presidents refused outright when approached to take the job. David Maxwell, Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said...
...Administration may publicly dismiss antiwar protesters. Privately it can hardly ignore them, as witness various reactions reported in Avant-Garde magazine. "I'm against the war in Viet Nam," says David Laird, son of Defense Secretary Melvin. James Westmoreland, son of the Army Chief of Staff, "wouldn't want to serve in Viet Nam." And so it goes, through John Resor, son of Army Secretary Stanley Resor; Lindsay McKelvie, stepdaughter of CIA Boss Richard Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their...