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Last August, when Red torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Johnson ordered air strikes against their home bases-but he made it eminently clear that this was a one-shot reprisal and would not be repeated, except under similar provocation. For months afterward, as Hanoi steadily increased the rate of infiltration via jungle trails threading into South Viet Nam until it reached the rate of at least 1,000 men a month, Johnson did nothing. Twice the Viet Cong struck directly at U.S. personnel, and twice they got away with it. Two days before...
Only when he was completely satisfied that the attacks were deliberate and unprovoked did he okay the retaliatory bombing of North Vietnamese torpedo boats and bases. Though some advisers hesitated about striking one big nest of boats dangerously close to Red China, Johnson specifically ordered a strike against that target...
...enough to give a submarine skipper the shakes: the U.S. Navy announced that it is adding to its arsenal the Mark-46 torpedo, a solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs. Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct...
...torpedo can be launched either from aircraft or surface ships. It dives to a preset depth, speeds around in large circles, using secret, supersophisticated devices to seek out an enemy sub. If it finds nothing, the Mark-46 switches to "active echo ranging," breaks its circular pattern and snakes zigzag through the water like a hunter stalking a deer. Once the enemy is located, the torpedo homes in with its sonar...
Farm Flap. Many uncertainties still loom over the course of the talks, and the fear is general that France may yet torpedo them over the problem of common tariffs for European agriculture. That fear was heightened last week when Italy announced that it is reluctant to agree to standardize feed-grain prices before 1970 because that would inflate Italian food bills. Coming on top of the Franco-German fight over grain prices, Italy's stand made it even more unlikely that Europe can devise a common policy by mid-December, as the French demand on pain of walking...