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...Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year's civil rights riots in Rochester, by National Guardsmen during the 1963 and 1964 racial riots in Cambridge, Md., by U.S. troops and Panamanian police in the Canal Zone crisis. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara personally tested CS in a training chamber at the Edgewood, Md.. Arsenal 18 months ago, found it "damned unpleasant...
...political liabilities of the policy far outweigh the military advantages," he said. "I am once again convinced of the political obtuseness of the people like McNamara who are guiding our foreign policy...
...McNamara 'Obtuse...
President Johnson quickly approved McNamara's recommendation, and orders crackled to Seventh Fleet head quarters in Hawaii. The marines' role, said the Pentagon, was to be strictly defensive. But nobody doubted for a minute that sooner or later they would clash with the Viet Cong. And, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk crisply informed a television audience, "if they are shot at, they will shoot back...
...decision to send in combat units had been weighed for weeks. Only after it became evident that the big Danang airbase in the northern tier of South Viet Nam was critically threatened, did Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recommend sending in two reinforced Marine battalions and a squadron of 24 helicopters. By then, at least twelve Viet Cong battalions-roughly 6,000 men-were in the Danang area; they launched an attack at Mieubong, only three miles away, the day before the marines landed...