Word: myopic
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...Myopic SAM. To Peking's claim that the dogfight took place over Chinese territory, the U.S. replied that the RB-66 was at least 50 miles south of China. And it was there for a reason: last week U.S. aircraft mounted a record 135 missions in one day over North Viet Nam, plastering targets from Dienbien-phu to Vinh and striking to within ten miles of the strategic port of Haiphong. The RB-66s help far-flying U.S. fighter-bombers to find their targets over the jungle-masked rivers and roads of North Viet Nam. They also aid them...
Last week SAM proved as myopic as ever. In the biggest daily barrage of the war, eleven SAMs were fired-and not one hit its mark. When SAMs tried to strong-arm Navy jets near Haiphong, the "airdales" roared in and struck the site, sending up spiraling smoke from a secondary explosion-probably a missile. Even when two SAMs were fired near Vinh at night, Air Force Phantoms could avoid them. "They looked like Roman candles," said one U.S. pilot, "lighting up the night sky." All told, only 14 of the 243 U.S. planes lost over North Viet Nam have...
Predictably, the festering sore of U.S. policy in Vietnam is reopened this time by Review's editor, F. A. Richman. He attacks Dean Rusk's myopic vision" and alleges that President Johnson's decision to transfer the responsibility for multi-agency foreign operations from the White House basement to the State Department Secretariat represents an "abdication of presidential perspective." It's too bad he neglects to mention that today the rigid White House perspective on foreign affairs, especially toward Vietnam, seems identical with that of the State Department. Coordination of the White House with the State Department has improved markedly...
...scrimmage without his pair of thick glasses, the burly Amherst guard could scarcely see. He didn't need to. Flailing arms, elbows and fists, he hurled himself at every vague shape that moved, and he made the tackle on almost every play. After 20 minutes of watching the myopic terror at work, the coach pulled him out of the scrimmage and gently reprimanded him: "It's only a game...