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McNamara had long been a precise and persistent opponent of any ABM system, chiefly on the ground that in the lethal game of nuclear deterrence, the best defense is a powerful offense. But when the Russians started deploying an ABM network-however thin-around Moscow and other cities, the Administration came under heavy pressure to follow suit. The reason for the U.S. decision, McNamara told 500 United Press International editors in San Fran cisco's Fairmont Hotel, was the threat that Red China would probably be able to strike the U.S. with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...strain on Hanoi that before long a major break will ensue. Last spring, U.S. Air Force Lieut. General William ("Spike") Momyer, commander of the bombing war in Viet Nam, devised a tactic known as "pursuit-of-a-target system" that puts relentless pressure on the North's transportation network. Instead of blasting a road or bridge and then leaving it alone for a while, the system calls for flyers to make continuous "multiple cuts" in roads and rail lines, trapping trains and trucks between the gaps and leaving them exposed to U.S. planes (see THE WORLD). Last week...
...nearly a year the U.S. has been trying to talk Russia out of deploying an anti-ballistic-missile network around key Soviet cities. Such a move, President Johnson argued, would force the U.S. to erect a shield of its own at immense cost, thereby imposing "on our peoples and on all mankind an additional waste of resources with no gain in security to either side." But the Russians, with their own hawk-dove divisions to worry about, were not listening. Now, discouraged by the Soviet response, alarmed at the looming menace of China as a nuclear power and buffeted...
Spartan & Sprint. As presently envisioned, the system will not handle what defense theorists call a "sophisticated attack." Such an attack would involve 400 to 600 incoming Soviet missiles traveling at 18,000 m.p.h., carrying devices aimed at confusing U.S. radar and bristling with multiple warheads. Rather, the network will be designed to cope with a "primitive attack," involving the sort of strike that Peking may be capable of mounting by the 1970s. Total cost of this "thin" or "austere" defense, as the Pentagon calls it, is estimated at $3.5 billion...
Nasser also faces a threat from his own intelligence service, which turned up the Amer plot. An unfathomable maze of gross and petty intrigue, the intelligence network, like the army, has undergone a top-to-bottom purge since the war, which showed up its almost total ignorance of Israeli plans and strategy. Among the first to go was the service's powerful top man, Sala Nasr. Last week Al Ahram announced that Nasr, too, had been arrested in connection with the Amer plot. Since Nasr ran a tight one-man show, turning his agents into almost a private army...