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Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-Namara's announcement that the U.S. will build a "thin" anti-ballistic-missile shield against a possible Chinese attack (TIME, Sept. 22) came under attack itself last week as proposing both far too little and much too much...
...only four months ago on a pilot basis in Maryland and Washington, the program already has been responsible for more than trebling-from 15,000 to 47,500-the number of housing units open to all races. That is only the beginning. With the President's backing, Mc-Namara has now set his sights on wiping out the discrimination that exists in 33% of the 900,000 housing units within a 3.5-mile radius of the nation's 305 major military posts in 46 states...
WEIGHED against its stated objectives," said Mc-Namara, "the bombing campaign has been successful." There were three objectives when the bombing began in February 1965, and they remain unchanged: 1) to reduce the flow and increase the cost of Hanoi's supply of men and materiel to South Viet Nam; 2) to raise the morale of the South Vietnamese; and 3) to make clear to Hanoi that aggression in the South would have to be paid for by a high price in damage to the North...
Attacking from China. For all this harassment, enough supplies keep coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail to fuel the Communist war in the South. In clear terms, Mc-Namara explained why. North Viet Nam has, he said, such a highly diversified transportation system, ranging from sampans to bicycles, that even at the present level of bombing, "the volume of traffic it is now required to carry, in relation to its capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese...
...been equally massive: 24 major airfields where previously there were nine, ten important seaports completed or under construction compared with one. A fleet of 472 supply ships plies the route to South Viet Nam, and an average of 30 cargo planes arrives daily. By late 1966, according to Mc-Namara, the U.S. and its allies achieved a stupendous rate of fire: 1,700,000 artillery and mortar rounds and 100 million small-arms bullets per month...