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...Robert McNamara, who holds the evil world on his shoulders...
...complete arsenal, in theory, would cost around $200, and many a family has found itself getting almost as far ahead of its original spending estimates as, say, Defense Secretary McNamara. This Christmas season, G.I. Joe is still the bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water...
Less than a month after disclosing; Soviet efforts to erect a defensive shield of antiballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed last; week that both Russia's defensive missile system and its long-range offensive missiles are going into place faster than U.S. intelligence sources had anticipated. The Russians, it is now estimated will have from 650 to 700 iCBMs in; place by 1968 instead of the 600 previously expected. Of greater consequence, its new anti-missile system, which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed...
...should go ahead full steam with an anti-missile missile system of its own. More than $2 billion has already been spent to develop such a system built around the Nike-X missile, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in favoring its full deployment. Secretary McNamara, on the other hand, has steadfastly balked at the more than $30 billion that the antiballistic missile system would cost. He has claimed in the past that the program would not be effective without a shelter program to accompany it, and that, in any case, every $5 billion spent on a defensive...
Enough to Smash. In any case, the Russian anti-missile system is not about to change the balance of power. The U.S. still has far more missiles than it needs to smash the Soviet Union, antimissile system or not. Said McNamara: "Our strategic offensive forces have today and will continue to have in the future the capability of absorbing a deliberate first strike and retaliating with sufficient strength to inflict unacceptable damage upon the aggressor or any combination of aggressors...