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...ARMY RESERVES AND THE NATIONAL GUARD. McNamara's efforts to merge the two forces were blocked by Congress, and Clifford seems disposed to leave them separate because of what he calls "the inherent differences existing between...
...NUCLEAR SHIPS. McNamara adopted a go-slow approach, for which he was upbraided last week by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The Committee urged the allocation of funds for a new submarine reactor proposed by Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover and the building of more nuclear surface ships...
...SOVIET MISSILES. Though McNamara vowed that the U.S. would always maintain a sizable lead over the Russians, many Congressmen were alarmed by his report that Moscow has more than doubled its land-based intercontinental-ballistic-missile force, to 720, in a year. Clifford agrees that the U.S. "must be superior" in missile strength...
...MANNED BOMBERS. McNamara had no use for them, felt strategic missiles were less vulnerable and more efficient. Clifford has said that "my inclination, which is a visceral one, is to say categorically yes" to developing a new bomber. The fact that the Strategic Air Command has now canceled B-52 airborne alert flights-simulated runs on Communist targets, with nuclear bombs aboard-in the wake of the Greenland crash in which four hydrogen bombs were lost, could, however, bring the usefulness of a new manned bomber into question...
...Clifford, who is ten years older than McNamara, and Smith added a total of 40 years to the overall age of the twelve-man Cabinet, giving it a considerably greyer look. From an average age of 50.7, it has now gone...