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...suffering notable reverses. Allied ground forces have dug out scores of previously impenetrable Viet Cong sanctuaries in South Viet Nam. And week by week, troopship by troopship, the best-trained soldiers America has ever fielded are joining battlewise U.S. combat forces in Viet Nam. Last week Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that U.S. forces in Asia would soon total 235,000-an increase of 30,000 in less than a month. In the heaviest raids over the North to date, U.S. Navy and Air Force supersonic fighter-bombers last week cut a major railroad line 40 miles-less than...
...listener who agreed went away saying: "He was talking 'Win.' He was much tougher than McNamara ever was before our committee, and tougher than Rusk." Senator Wayne Morse, who likes weak talk, grumped: "I think he has lost all his persuasiveness among people who think. I never expected my Vice President to make this plea...
...save us from Dean Rusk [Feb. 4] in Viet Nam and God save us from TIME, should you continue your favorable treatment of incompetents like Rusk, McNamara and the others of their ilk in the Executive Branch...
...last week's hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see THE NATION). About to set off its third nuclear blast, supported by a huge army that could bring full-scale war to Southeast Asia if it marched south, Red China is certainly what Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently called it: "a threat of greatest concern to the U.S." The threat is the more bother some because China's very frustrations make its reactions so odd and unpredictable. But, while the West worries about China, China is building for itself a worrisome string of problems that looks...
...McNamara, hospitalized for a thyroid ailment, was the only absentee- the Administration needed 66 votes to close down Dirksen's filibuster. It remained for Hubert Humphrey, president of the Senate, to announce how far short of the mark the Administration had fallen. "On this vote," boomed Humphrey when the tally was completed, "there are 51 yeas and 48 nays. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the cloture motion is rejected." Two days later Mansfield tried again; this time the vote was 50 to 49 for cloture. Thus repeal...