European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Peg 4 the stars and stud pcs antimissile argument hotly debated " r j a m Ais Sentinel too provocative or too timid by Bob Horton Washington a until last fall the old adage about the weather would seem to have applied to the missile threat everybody talked a lot but nobody seemed to be doing anything about it. On sept. 18, 1967 the Johnson administration did something about it and the Way it proceeded is still kicking up de Bate. Robert s. Mcnamara the Secretary of defense told the world the administration had concluded there were marginal grounds for deciding the unite states should build a $5-billion antimissile defense. If Mcnamara announced the decision to deploy the Sentinel system with something less than enthusiasm and some believe he did he has company. There has developed a remarkable Lack of consensus that the Sentinel is the answer to the missiles red China will have in the 1970s or the ones the soviet Union already has. Depending on the View Point the Sentinel is too Little too much too ambitious to Short sighted too provocative or too timid. The joint chiefs of staff recommended a $20-billion system of interceptor rockets to defend As a starter the nation in Gener Al and 25 major cities in partic ular. Others including Jerom Wiesner who was science adviser to president John f. Kennedy consider it Folly to build an expensive defense when enemy missiles could always be de signed to overwhelm it. Nuclear Hawks in Congress who had pushed missile defend serb the grounds that the soviets were pushing it wanted a $40-Biliion system to try to fend off the hundreds of missiles that would be launched in a nuclear War. Others in Congress raised their voices in opposition later re commending the billions be spent somewhere else for the fight against poverty decaying cities and other Domestic prob  question of whether the United states should proceed to deploy the Sentinel and if so to what extent is expected to continue As an Issue in the presidential  it stands the administration lists three reasons for build ing the Sentinel. The prime reason Given i that the thin antimissile sys tem will make the country virtually immune to the sort of Low scale unsophisticated Typ of nuclear attack China May be Able to mount in the mid-1970s.in the Pentagon there is a widely accepted belief thatching is Apt to be More danger Ous with Only a few intercontinental ballistic missiles than it will be later with a larger More secure Force. The thinking is that in a future crisis China might be tempted to launch its few atomic rockets rather than risk los ing them to a . First  Pentagon calculates that the Sentinel would be Able to intercept most if not ail chinese icbms of the 1970, thus limit ing . Deaths from any attack to from less than one million to  new Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford said the senti Nel also would limit damage from an accidental icbms launch ing from any sources As Wellas allow the United states to defend its minuteman offensive missiles if that seemed prudent. The defense of the minuteman would be against accurate so Viet missiles. In effect official say this would amount to Bol stering american deterrent forces since it would increase the number of offensive missiles that could survive and Retali ate against any soviet assault. Wiesner now Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of technology contended in a letter to the new York times that an antimissile defense will be effective Only for a Short time be fore an opponent figures ways to beat it. Sentinel itself is already technically obsolete it is based on a several year old  asserted. Many of the components Are essentially obsolete in the Light of new radar and missile  officials counter by saying the Sentinel is not Mccarthy at the Bat sen. Eugene Mccarthy candidate for the democratic presiden tial nomination takes time out from Campaign ing to play a Little softball. He s swinging away during a picnic at the farm of sen. Philip a. Hart d-mjch., at mount pleasant my. Up census Taher giving Way to count by Matt system by Joseph r. Coyne Washington a theold fashioned census taker is going to be replaced by account by mail and computer system for most of the Amer ican people during the 1970 he accounting. The census Bureau say about 60 per cent of the Popula Tion will be asked to count itself by filling out and returning mailed questionnaires. Lems in the negro  in Philadelphia and Cleveland showed about one third compliance in Low income areas a Bureau spokesman said. One purpose of these tests isto devise methods to the record. For the next census the Bureau plans to set up about 400 District offices to handle about500,000 persons each. Each Dis Cut Rhode Island and new Jer sey the entire state will be canvassed by two Way mail while Many other states will be Cov ered the old Way. Against a soviet attack 3because the soviet Union Proba. Bly would always be in a  to launch More offensive warheads than the Sentinel could intercept. Every warhead real or Dummy would have Tobe taken under attack and sen Unel interceptors would soon be exhausted by hundreds of incoming  in Congress have argued that there does t see to be much logic in trying to build a defense against missile the chinese do not yet have while ignoring the Huer soviet Force. Clifford has however portrayed the Sentinel i s a possible bargaining Point with the soviet Union in upcoming negotiations Over possible 11 i la Lions or reductions in missile forces of the two super Powers. Some officials a link the recent Senate debate Over the Sentinel May have figured in the soviet decision to agree to nuclear arms  Fortes Defeated by a 52-114 ote an Amend ment by Sens. John Sherman Cooper a a and Philip , a Mich. Shich would have postponed initial construction on the Sentinel system three Days Laler soviet foreign minister Andrei Groin Yoko informed he tinted states his country was willing to enter talks on the missile problem. Observers believe the greater pressures now confronting the administration Are for expansion of the Sentinel against the soviets rather than halting or limiting us growth. Mcnamara warned last fall of the mad momentum intrinsic in nuclear a r m s development and cautioned if a weapon system works and works Well there is Strong pressure from Many directions to procure an deploy the weapon out of Ai proportion to the prudent level  Gen. Earle g. 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