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...Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned that China was well on its way to becoming "the third most important nuclear power in the world." The U.S., he said, must have the ability to wage nuclear war against both China and the Soviet Union at the same time. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird also reported that the Chinese now have a few medium-range missiles (500 to 1,000 miles, by some estimates), some intermediate-range missiles (up to 2,000 miles) and should have an intercontinental missile (3,000 to 6,000 miles) by 1975. Nor does China find...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...almost overnight, the battlefield situation in Indochina has quickened to the point where the Administration is reminding people that there is still a war going on. In Saigon last week, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker flatly warned a group of businessmen to expect "heavy fighting before long." In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird recently said that the Communists have "advertised an offensive as they have advertised no other offensive in Viet Nam." The White House has been encouraging such forecasts of trouble, for obvious reasons. Richard Nixon is taking no chances that the U.S. public will be surprised by a bloody flare...
That fleet will certainly include a powerful armada of nuclear-powered, missile-carrying submarines. Currently the Russians' most potent undersea weapon is the Y-class sub, called Yankee in American navy parlance, which is comparable in size and speed to the U.S. Polaris. As Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird will probably disclose in testimony to Congress this week, the Soviets now have in commission or under construction 42 Yankees. They are adding new ones at a present annual rate of twelve a year while the U.S. years ago leveled off its Polaris fleet at 41. The Russians are developing...
...Washington has been a difficult town for David Packard," Defense Secretary Melvin Laird remarked recently. "He thinks there should be solutions for these problems. Often there can't be. And every time he looks up, there's another problem coming across his desk." Last week Packard, Laird's Deputy Secretary of Defense, finally decided to give up problem solving for the Federal Government's biggest department and return to Hewlett-Packard Company, the $350-million-a-year electronics firm that he headed before he came to Washington...