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...weekly military briefing by ordering: "Don't tell me about Viet Nam now. I don't want to hear about it until the end." Viet Nam always used to be first on his agenda. Now U.S. officials seem confident that the South Vietnamese military forces can withstand Communist pressure as U.S. troop levels decline. They even speak wistfully of how military victory might have been within reach...
ORSA had accused Rathjens of overestimating the ability of Minuteman silos to withstand attack. The scientists replied that the Defense Department, in its first estimates, had agreed with Rathjens's analysis of Minuteman survivability...
Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...
...secret study groups had decided that the tactic would not succeed. The groups worked independently of each other, but their conclusions were the same. An interagency task force headed by Assistant to the Under Secretary of State William H. Sullivan predicted that North Viet Nam would be able to withstand an aerial attack, and rather than breaking national morale, the bombing would stiffen North Vietnamese resistance...
...table, two electric outlets, jacks for phone and television, and an upholstered lining that muffles sound. Spheres are produced with shiny white exteriors, but can be ordered in other colors to match room decors. Cost: $1,600 for an indoor model, $1,900 for one that can withstand rain and snow...