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Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-Namara's announcement that the U.S. will build a "thin" anti-ballistic-missile shield against a possible Chinese attack (TIME, Sept. 22) came under attack itself last week as proposing both far too little and much too much...
...believed, were only surface villains (for them, Morgenthau preferred firing squads to war-crimes trials); the real rot was in the German soul. "Somebody's got to take the lead about let's be tough to the Germans," he told Assistant Secretary of War John J. Mc-Cloy on his return to Washington...
Affairs in Order. "We've known these people for years," says St. Clair Mc-Cabe, Thomson's general manager for North America, "but we never thought they'd sell." Brush-Moore sold because its owners were losing interest in the newspaper business and wanted to set their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien...
WEIGHED against its stated objectives," said Mc-Namara, "the bombing campaign has been successful." There were three objectives when the bombing began in February 1965, and they remain unchanged: 1) to reduce the flow and increase the cost of Hanoi's supply of men and materiel to South Viet Nam; 2) to raise the morale of the South Vietnamese; and 3) to make clear to Hanoi that aggression in the South would have to be paid for by a high price in damage to the North...
Attacking from China. For all this harassment, enough supplies keep coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail to fuel the Communist war in the South. In clear terms, Mc-Namara explained why. North Viet Nam has, he said, such a highly diversified transportation system, ranging from sampans to bicycles, that even at the present level of bombing, "the volume of traffic it is now required to carry, in relation to its capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese...