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Step-Up. Though the President so far has balked at a further step-up in the air war against the North, the South is another matter. To explore the present status of the U.S. military effort there, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara left Washington at week's end for his eighth visit to Saigon since 1961, accompanied by General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and newly appointed Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach...
...last time McNamara was in Viet Nam, the U.S. had 180,000 men in the country and was just beginning to untangle the logistical lash-ups caused by the unprecedentedly swift buildup. This week he will find a force of 320,000 men who, in the eleven months that have intervened since his seventh visit, have kept the Reds from winning a single major battle, have 'discouraged them from mounting any attack in battalion strength or greater since March, and are finding that the badly hurt guerrillas are ever more willing to surrender. Seldom, if ever, have the Communist...
Daunted Defendants. Police are aghast. "The public has a right to know how bad a criminal is," protests Boston's Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara. "The more the press blasts the serious criminal, the better we like it," says Chief Edward F. Leiss of Metuchen, N.J. "I don't think the police are giving out too much information about accused persons," adds Commissioner Russell T. Beebe of East St. Louis, Ill. "I don't think they're giving out enough." Says Houston Prosecutor Carol Vance: "The public has a right to know what's going...
...recent months there has been much discussion of the concept of universal national service. Secretary McNamara has suggested that a man might do his patriotic duty either through military service or through appropriate civilian work, such as that of the Peace Corps. Opponents of this idea have quite rightly objected that no civilian alternative to the armed forces demands the potential sacrifice of the soldier on the battlefield: his very life. But there is a simple and obvoius remedy for this defect. Each month the percentage of war deaths should be determined, and this proportion of men engaged in nonmilitary...
...draft is beginning to involve universities in a bit of social engineering that may change the way of life for future generations of students. Beginning in May with a conference of men from many parts of public life in New York City and then with Secretary of Defense McNamara's now-famous speech in Montreal, the country was made aware of a desire to change not only the specific form of the draft but also the concept of national service. The extent of public discontent was revealed in early July when a Gallup Poll was released showing only...