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...Force and the Navy. While McNamara emphasized a balance of forces and strengthened conventional elements as well as nuclear components of the arsenal, Laird is likely to encourage at least a partial return to the approach of the Eisenhower years. The stress then was on developing strategic nuclear weapons???long-range bombers, missiles...
Toothless Answer. Attempts to tighten the absurdly loose laws have repeatedly been defeated, largely due to the efforts of the 1,000,000-member National Rifle Association. Two years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons???which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such...
...maneuverings have met with little success. "We are trying to do too many things at once," said Prime Minister Eden last week. "Better roads, modernized railroads, more houses, new power stations to develop nuclear power . . . maintaining our armed forces for service on many continents . . . equipping them with modern weapons???there is nothing to criticize in any of these aims, but they cannot all be met at once. Some must be restrained...