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...least $6 billion. But space officials think the investment will pay off in the long run. By eliminating the need for cumbersome splashdowns in the Pacific and by allowing expensive hardware to be re-used for perhaps 100 flights, shuttles will sharply reduce the cost of putting men and materiel into space. That price now comes to more than $1,000 for every pound lifted into orbit by NASA's nonre-usable Saturn 5 boosters. Shuttles should reduce the tab to $50 per Ib. or less...
Guessing Wrong. Neither postulation has held up. With all their Soviet materiel, the Arabs have proved ineffectual. They have scored some successes since the war of attrition began last spring but they have paid dearly for every one. The Israelis, for instance, have systematically taken out the SA-2 surface-to-air missiles that the Russians gave Nasser and laid ruin to the radar system that was supposed to alert him to low-flying Israeli marauders...
...Uigurs and Kazakhs who live along China's side of the Sinkiang border have been susceptible to Soviet pressures in the past. Hit-and-run air strikes, first at minor targets, then at more vital areas, would prove less costly than ground incursions in terms of men and materiel. All-out air strikes, however, would almost certainly provoke a declaration...
...Haiphong. Neither U.S. nor world opinion would stand for any of those, and Nixon's new entente with Western Europe would vanish overnight. Still untried, but less drastic, would be a naval blockade of Haiphong or Sihanoukville in Cambodia, the two biggest ports of entry for enemy materiel. The most likely choice, however, is an intensification of the ground war in South Viet Nam, perhaps marked by a large-scale American offensive. None of these courses is without risk, either military or political, and much will depend on the recommendations that Mel Laird brings back to Washington this week...
...breaking four-power agreements by recruiting West Berliners for the Bundeswehr. Nor did the Western allies escape Russian blasts. In an obvious threat to the allied air rights into the city, the Soviets charged that Western allies were abetting the schemes of the West Berlin industrialists by flying war materiel across East Germany to West Germany...