The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 December 1968 — Page 5

Monday, December 16, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Laird favors review

By DONALD H. MAY WASHINGTON (UPI)—Rep. Melvin Laird, President-elect Richard M. Nixon’s Defense Secretary, favors a review of the defense establishment by a “top level committee or commission.” He said such a review would be conducted over six months or a year and is an idea the 46-year-old congressman from Wisconsin had expressed as far back as 1966. Asked Friday if he still favored the proposal, Laird said: “Yes, I feel that we must set up a top-level committee or commission to reappraise the jefense establishment and defense policy, a d the organization of the department of defense.” He did not say what form such a commission would take. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference after a two hour meeting with Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, Laird also showed caution in approaching the responsibilities of cabinet office. He declined to discuss concrete defense policies, saying there could be “serious miscalculations.” And, he would not comment on the Nixon campaign charge that the Democrats created a defense “security gap.” Times Have Changed Asked about views he and the House Appropriations Committee expressed some six years ago on a nuclear “first strike” capability against the Soviet Union, Laird said that was during “a period of confrontation. We are now in a period of negotiations, and I think that should be considered as we face the future.” The secretary-designate said he argued with Nixon for three weeks to appoint Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, a No plans to upstage U.S. efforts

By NICHOLAS DANILOFF WASHINGTON (UPI)—Soviet space officials strongly hint, contrary to previous expectation, the Kremlin is not planning to upstage the United States by launching a manned space craft around the moon before the U.S. Apollo 8 mission Dec. 21. With the success of the Soviet Zond-5 and Zond-6 unmanned flights around the moon, Wash, ington analysts and informed sources in Moscow had speculated the Soviets would send several men on a circumlunar flight in December. But in a recent Radio Moscow broadcast, Soviet academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov, a frequent spokesman for the Soviet space program, was quoted as saying that “further testing is required before a man can be sent on such a journey.” Blagonravov, who helped the Soviet Union’s mighty rockets as president of the Soviet Academy of Artillery Sciences in 1946, appeared to be confirming a similar declaration by Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky Nov. 30. Bykovsky said in an interview with a correspondent for the Soviet news agency Tass: “Many are eager to go to the moon. True, however, lunar studies are being successfully conducted by numerous space apparatuses. “And we know already much about our eternal satellite. Much time will yet passbefore man reaches the moon and makes the first steps on it’s surfaces.” Washington analysts, and some informed sources in Moscow, had reasoned that the Zond-5 and Zond-6 flights that circled the moon had proved the Soviet ability to execute the crucial re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere at speeds up to 25,000 miles an hour and achieve a safe recovery. Additionally, experts here had noted that the moon was in a favorable position during the second week of December for an upstaging Soviet space spectacular around the moon. Informed sources, quoted by United Press International in Moscow Nov. 26, asserted that a two-or three-man flight around the moon was in preparation. The race to the moon is much more publicized in the United States than in the Soviet Union, where officials tend to discourage the idea of active space competition in their public statements.

Democrat secretary of defense. “I did not seek the office ol Secretary of Defense,” Laird told newsmen. “I was asked tc

serve...I was not pushing my own candidacy.” Laird also met earlier Friday with former president Dwight D. Eisenhower, recuperating at Walter Reed Army Hospital from his latest heart attack on

Aug. 16. The meeting, however, was ' not mentioned during the news conference. Hopes For End Laird said without elaboration he hoped the Vietnam War would be ended by next winter

— "By the time that we get to the preparation of our first budget.” The first Nixon budget will be for the fiscal year starting July 1, 1970. As the next defense secretary, Laird said he intended to visit

Vietnam. He was also asked if he would consider naming a Democrat as his deputy secretary. “Well,” he said, “I favored the appointment of a Democrat as Secretary of Defense, and so

recommended to President-elect Nixon. Asked why he made the case for a Democrat? “I don’t mind telling you that I supported and recommended to the presidentelect Senator Jackson of Wash.

ington for this job.” Laird did say he would gather a “new team” to run the Pentagon and favored creation of a high-level commission to study its organization and policy for six months to a year.

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