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These Days Or - Behind The Hewn From Washington Bj John Chamberlain Jiut why the Nixon Ad ministration, which had noth ing to do with the decisions that committed 500,000 Amer icans to Jangle fighting on the Asian mainland, should be really concerned ahont the New York Times' articles op the Pentagon’s study of our Vietnam involvement is something of a mystery. True, it is a bit disconcern ing for President Nixon, both as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and the na tion’s chief diplomat, to know that the security of classified information can be broken by enterprising reporters. But the net effect of the Times’ scoop is to make the leaders of the Democratic Party during the Johnson years look like those used car salesmen who habitu ally take beat-up automobiles across state lines in order to turn the speedometers back without breaking local laws against tampering with record ed mileage. Mr. Nixon, who has suffer ed from (he Democratically inspired “tricky Dicky” image for more than a decade, must be secretly smirking at the picture presented in the Times of a Democratic re gime committed to engaging the nation in « war by stealth and with the use of ctrate gies not approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As for Barry Goldwater, who was so badly wronged during the 1964 campaign as the “trig ger-happy” fellow who would blow up little girls as they plucked the petals from daisies, he can now feel vin dicated. If he had been elect ed we might still have gotten into war in Asia. But it would have been with the nation’s consent, and the war would have been fought by means approved by the Joint, Chiefs of Staff. The Times speaks of the “covert” war, which is its polite way of saying something that could have been presented in harsher terms. I sympathize When you think of prescrip lions, think of VARNER’S, adv. —..-.. with the Times’ copy desk, tor I am not temperamentally a willing killer of men’s imputa tions.. Let u» be charitable and say that Lyndon Johnson and his Secretary of Defense start ed their “clandestine” plans for “squeeiing” the North Viet namese for reasons that seemed entirely honorable to them selves. However, if a Comroander in-Chief and his deputy cannot be convicted of any crime for doing what they think best for the security of the nation, even if they do it without consulting Congress or asking fpr the ap propriations to sustain their course of action, they can be convicted before the bar pf public opinion for stupidity. Back in World War |1 times I used to hobnob with Major George Fielding EBot and Fletcher Pratt, who did a thriving business of “«• perting” on military strategy and tactics for various publi cations. Later on 1 helped MacArthur's G-2, General Charles Willoughby, end Gen eral Albert Wedemeyer put their books in shape. Again and again I heard the classic maxims of warfare reiterated. Some qf the maxims stressed thf principle of surprise. Others stressed the principle of concentration. (“A linear defense is no defense.” “To seek to be strong everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”) This is the sort of stuff that used to be kindergarten wis dom to any military man worth his salt. Robert McNamara and John son must have heard the maxims, for the Joint Chiefs, as revealed by the New York Times, argued that the plans for “squeezing" Hanoi or rely ing on bombs directed at politi cal targets were no substitute for hitting hard at the enemy’s “capabilities.” The Joint Chiefs and the C. I. A. wanted the U. S. to demonstrate a willing ness to apply “unlimited force” 'the principle of concentration) by taking out all of North Vietnam’s major airfields and its petroleum supplies “in the first three days.” (Moshe Dayan, you would have approv ed the Joint Chiefs’ thinking.) But the thinking of the mili tary and the intelligence peo ple was shunted aside by LBJ and McNamara and their civi lian-trained advisers. The plans were for "gradu ated response” in hopes that Ho Chi Mlnh and General Giap would be Intimidated. Such plans ignored the whole history of guerrilla warfare, which admits of no intimida tion. None of the plans were surfaced in time to becope points for discussion in the 1964 campaign. The Idea was to eliminate Goldwater as the “trigger-happy” man, and then, after the new Presi dential term had begun, to POOR RICHARD’S KITCHEN OPEN FOR THE SUMMER! THE HAUNTED MILL “A REAL COUNTRY MEAL SERVED FAMILY STYLE" _-i-— Luncheon Served 12 Noon to 3 p.m. Dinner Served 5 p.m, to 8 p.|n. AFTERNOON TEA Served 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CLOSED MONDAYS SUNDAY DINMER Served from 12 Nooit to 8 p.m. * f: v.-: W Science for You PROBLEM: Solvents. NEEDED: Carbonated soft drink, salt, a dime. DO THIS: Make sure the mouth of the bottle is wet. Drop a little salt into the drink, place the dime on the mouth of the bottle, and it will move up and down, show ing that gas is coming out of the bottle. HERE’S WHY: The water of the soft drink has car bon dioxide, a gas, dissolved in it. Salt water can hold less carbon dioxide in solution than can plain water. So when the added salt dissolves in the water, some of the gas has to come out. This does not mean that water cannot hold, dissolved in it, many different substances. It can. In the soft drink, there are many dissolved substances in addition to the salt and the carbon dioxide. It just cannot hold as much carbon dioxide when salt is added. Incidentally, if- there are possibly harmful chemicals in the drink, carbon dioxide is not one of them. TUs special "Science For Yon” feature is sponsored by Olin Corporation at Fisgah Forest in co-operation with The Transylvania Timas. L SOCUL .SECURITY Questions And Answers By NORRIS 0, GRUBBS Field Representative Q I’m age 62 and disabled. Can I draw my full social se curity amount? A. you . can draw reduced retirement benefits new, end after sjx month waiting per iod, if it is determined that you are t«ta)ly disabled, yon WPOld be changed over to dis ability benefits wMeb w about 20 percent higher. Q. I have a younger daugh ter. age 14. Can she get fopinl security, benefits up my record? A. Yes, and jUro yogr w«e. if she bM the child in her care and is HOt working. Q. My wife and I are di vorced. hut she has custody of my daughter. Can my ex-wife get benefits on my record? A. No, only the child Q. Do I have to have my husband’s death certificate to file a ciain»? 1 JLfti* iWP spw i payment was mde on your husband's account. How ever, if you have the death certificate, it can help to put (he “covert” plans Into effect. The outlines of both the mili tary stupidity and the political deception have Jong been obvi ous without the1 corroboration of the Times’ scoop. Fighting a war tjuit used #00,000 men for wbat amounted ; tp tl*p linear defense of South Vietnam’s boundaries (ther£ was no “con centration” until we went into Cambodia) was ho more con clusive than fighting the same war with 200,000 men. The guerrilla enemy, filtered be tween our forces, simply fol Keeler’s classic jxlm by “hitting they ain’t." Any GI , told LBJ that you *' yOp don’t demolish “capabilities” (U, Haiphong, the oil were dis >ly in the But ;pbj Weed yew claim along if you dq submit H. Q. Is there anything else I will need? A. You will u«ed your mar riage certificate, yaw own social security number if you have one, and information regarding any previous mar riages of yew husband or you Q. I am a widow and will be 60 years old in Apr^ 1972- 1 have a 1042 insurance policy showing my age. Will this be enough to prove my age? ' A. Not necessarily. You should check first, for an arlglpal birth certificate on file with the State in which you were hWR- If yPli were baptised prior to age 6, you should obtain a baptismal certificate from tJhe church. Q. What if there is no birth or baptismal certificate re corded for me? A. |n this case, a combina tion of documents can be submitted. The 1942 insur ance policy combined with a school record, family Bible reeord, child’s birth certiff- , cate, employment record, ; census record, or marriage t license should be sufficient evidence of your age. ? as Admin b of Betty ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Ip the General Court Of Justice Superior Court Division State of North Carolina Transylvania Count Having qualifiei istrator of the estati S. 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