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...Battle Zone. U.S. officers are understandably alarmed by this shifting of balances. Soviet naval strength on all oceans has been growing with remarkable rapidity for several years now (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1968). "Nothing stops them," admits Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "They are moving in everywhere." Nowhere is this more true than in the Mediterranean. Warns U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero Jr., the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) commander of NATO forces in southern Europe: "What was traditionally NATO's southern flank has developed into its southern front. The Mediterranean, which...
...Soviet ICBM to worry about? The White House said that Jackson was "very close" to right. The Pentagon confirmed that "we have detected some new ICBM construction in the Soviet Union-we are not sure exactly what it is or what the Soviet intentions are." Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Russians had initiated "a new ICBM-silo construction program -the silos are unlike any others they have previously constructed." One intelligence source claimed that the silos were bigger than those for the S59 and that...
...TIME'S story on Cambodia, "Pinching the Arteries" [Jan. 25], has Admiral Thomas H. Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...
Rejected Plan. The Route 4 rescue followed a one-day visit to Phnom-Penh by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer concluded that the situation was deteriorating, though not really critical. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who was in Viet Nam for a three-day visit, rejected a proposal to send U.S. transport helicopters to the Elephant Mountains, but he did not rule out such missions in the future...
...raiders set off from Nakhon Phanom, a search-and-rescue base in Thailand. They approached their objective overland across Laos and mountainous inland North Viet Nam, a route that avoided the enemy's heaviest radar and antiaircraft defenses. When they returned emptyhanded, Nixon telephoned both Laird and Moorer. He had no regrets, he said; it had been a good plan, the right thing to do. If nothing else, the raid had clearly embarrassed Hanoi by pointing up the holes in the North Vietnamese air defenses...