European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Thursday August 1, 196s it. Gen. Ira c. Eaher. Us a diet the stars and stripes Page f Mcnamara line disturbs Cong reports recently released Dure a not of left us a m  of congressional commit hear Ings reveal a deep concern about the Mcnamara in that barbed wire electronic Fence or defense zone which the former Secretary of defense authorized and which was designed to Stop infiltration of men and supplies into South Vietnam from the North. Normally any new major weapons systems or defense expenditure must be presented to the armed services committees House and Senate and be authorized by a majority vote of the Congress. Thereafter the funds requested must be consid ered by the appropriations committees of both houses be approved by a majority veto of the Congress and like the authorization Bill must be signed by the president before Legal expenditures can be made to launch it. The hearings on i Mcna Mara line reveal that this proce Dure s t followed. Many congressmen have expressed amazement that More than $1.5 billion was expended on this modern version of the ill fated French Maginot line without any specific congressional authorization or appropriation. This vast sum was obtained by taking Money appropriated by the con Gress for other purposes technically called  the Senate committee also appeared surprised to find that the Mcnamara line was not requested by commanders in the Field nor approved by the joint chiefs of staff. Instead the hearings Sug Gest it to have been a brain storm of a think tank the Institute of defense analysis and to have become thereafter a Whiz kid High priority project. These Whiz kids the personal staff of former Secretary of de sense Mcnamara hoped apparently that this defense fortification line could be substituted for the bombing of North Vietnam. Most experienced military advisers recognized and pointed out that such a Static line had in Herent weaknesses. It could be pierced or bypassed by any determined foe at any time. As in All Static defences the enemy was accorded the initiative since he was free to select the time and place of attack. The committee discovered an other curious aspect of the Mcnamara line. It did not get the Cost effectiveness examination to which All other weapons systems were subjected in the Mcnamara Era. This much heralded innovation had been used to delay or cancel Many of the urgent re quests of the armed services for new weapons for More than six years. Weapons like the Sybolt missile the new Amsa bomber and the new air defense interceptor for the air Force and nuclear powered carriers Antisubmarine defences and Carrier borne interceptors for the Navy were shot Down by Cost effective Ness analyses made by the Young inexperienced civilian aides of the Secretary. The army did not entirely escape the Cost effectiveness blight. For example its urgent pleas for additional armed helicopters were denied at the very time their effectiveness was being demonstrated in Vietnam. Closed Down helicopter production lines had therefore to be reopened hastily and at great expense. The Mcnamara line might have escaped some of the congressional ire had it proved effective. Unfortunately for it the rate of infiltration has nearly tripled since March 31, demonstrating its failure to fulfil the Hopes of its sponsors and confirming the military judgment against it. During the past six or seven Resmen years there have been times when Many citizens worried that Congress had relinquished its constitutional authorization to raise and support armies and forfeited the very great Power it can exert on defense policy through its authorization and appropriation for weapons sys tems. Congressional reaction to the Mcnamara line offers some reassurance in this area. There can also now be some Hope that military influence on weapons selection May be re stored. The congressional denouncement and criticism of the Mcnamara line combined with the final death blow it recently dealt to the Navy s fill a seems to Point that Way. Unmistakable warnings have now been issued to the Pentagon ans that the authority of Congress in the defense area can no longer be flouted with impunity. Cd 1958. General feature corp. Summer s moderation ends violence is Here Gwine to run All night Doo Dah Doo Dah Gwine to run All Day Max Lerner with the Cleveland riots and scattered violence elsewhere the end of the moderate summer has finally come. The surprising fact is that the moderation should have lasted As Long As it did. With the conventions and More heat ahead the Pace of violence is Likely to increase partly be cause of the heat partly to exploit it and either influence or Embarrass the conventions. This does t mean that i sub scribe to the plot theory of the riots. Doubtless there Are deep causes which panels of scholars have recently been digging into. But it in t True that the outbreaks Are spontaneous. Catchwords set flame to passions. Racial hatreds Power ambitions and murderous slogans trigger guns. In the Cleveland Case the Start seems to have come not from some spontaneous incident but from deliberate sniping with police As targets. It May seem strange that Vio Lence should hit Cleveland which a a negro mayor yet not so strange. After the King assassination the City hit hardest was Washington which also has a negro mayor. From the stand Point of Black nationalists the Black mystique does not extend to erring Brothers who make the mistake of collaborating with Whites and working for Black Power within the existing society. He three principal negro mayors Carl b. Stokes Clevelan Walter e. Washington washing f0"/ . And Richard g. Hat c7 Gary  Are obviously by the prelude to a Host of others to come especially since be tides of population in the big Are in their direction. John Adams used to Dis  Between the revolution and the War for Independence. The revolution he a a Hap Tion is what is going on in the minds of Blacks and Whites alike which will decide what place negroes will have within the larger american society. If that revolution is adequately completed there will be no need for a War. But the Black nationalists have reversed the process. They Are convinced that Only a War can spark the right kind of revolutionary changes inside the minds of the people and that Only snipers bullets and fire bombs can awaken the right kind of Militancy in Blacks and spread the right kind of terror among Whites. They won t get away with it either with the Blacks or the Whites but meanwhile they can cause a Good Deal of havoc among both. The havoc would be even greater if they can pro Voke the Whites into a counter terror which would win Over to the Side of the Black terrorists the marginal Blacks who today Are waiting to see whether nonviolence works or if discouragement should spread among the Moder ates White and Black alike who Are working to carry through a revolution of schools jobs and votes inside the City. There have been recent moves by Black Liberal leaders especially in Core and the Urban league to adopt the Black Power slogans in the Hope of stripping the movement of its terrorism. Men like Whitney Young Floyd Mckissick and Roy Innis Are at heart liberals who feel that the Pace of change is too slow and that the negro masses May fall prey to destructive demagogues unless responsible leaders rally to the ready made slogans. Their fears Are probably Well grounded. But the danger is that those who join the Black Power movement in the Hope of con trolling it Don t reckon with the advantage that the extremists have with a set of slogans so highly charged with hatred of Whites. The problem with some thing like Black Power is that it won t stay within limits to which humanists might like to keep it. C 1363. Los Angeles Tim i Humphrey thrust into balance act people in the colonies before. A 1"j it Wai Flotd a War re Indence. In the struggle f0f neg f0 rights today the Ravoli new York Hubert Humphrey s main problem As he sees it is How to move away from Lyndon Johnson s coattails with out offending the president. Otherwise he will never be Able to attract the disaffected liberals who contend that he blvd is Little different from Rich Ard Nixon that the vice president sold out on Vietnam and other major is sues such As the problems of the cities. The fact that As the no. 2 Man in government Humphrey had Little Choice but to support the policies of the president appears lost on the vice president s critics some of whom have vowed to picket his appearances and militantly pro test his impending nomination As his party s presidential candidate. They claim that other vice presidents including Dick Nixon frequently disagreed in the inner councils of the White House but that Humphrey happily agreed with everything submitted by the president. In fact so faithful a lieutenant was Humphrey that As the Story goes lbs and Humphrey were attending a Swank dinner when the president suddenly whispered into Humphrey s ear Hubert did i hear you belch no replied the vice presi Dent was i supposed to the Story is told in a fascinating new and unauthorized biography of the vice president entitled  written by Allen h. Ryskind Hubert makes must Reading in this presidential year for those americans who want to know what kind of a Man the vice president really is. At times he is difficult to under stand. Thus writes Ryskind out of loyalty to the president he has established close ties with Georgia governor Lester Maddox who ran negroes out of his Pri vate restaurant with axe handles and he has supported negroes Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher As mayoralty candidates. He has steered Johnson s Radical civil rights program through the Congress but he successfully organized opposition in the Senate to legislation to abolish poll taxes legislation that Humphrey had consistently campaigned for during his sen ate  Ryskind also notes that Humphrey is for the president s policy in Vietnam indeed no More vigorous a Champion of the War  but since Ryskind completed his manuscript there have been signs that this vigorous Cham Pion is seeking to divorce him self from the president s policy in Vietnam. For example the vice president has put together a staff of foreign policy advisers who almost to a Man favor a softer line toward Vietnam. Most significantly John p. Roche the hard line anti communist Liberal who has been president Johnson s House intellectual has been informed that his proffered services at a Humphrey adviser have been rejected. Roche s presence on the Humphrey team it appears would be bad for the new image the vice president is try ing to project. North american  Alliance