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Automated War. Three years ago General William C. Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, forecast a future of automated wars "featuring almost instantaneous application of lethal firepower." Much of the air war is now automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships...
...effect, the Nixon Administration had realized that the policy would eventually be put to a violent test. The time, it reckoned, would come after the U.S. had ceased to have a significant ground combat capability in Viet Nam, and before the November 1972 elections. More recently, U.S. intelligence had forecast that the Communist assault would come some time between February and April or May, when the monsoon rains begin the annual conversion of much of Indochina into...
...evidence that the economy is making sturdy progress toward recovery, and is likely to gain speed in the months ahead. Says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The news that the economy is moving at a good clip now is a fact, not a forecast...
...weather should not affect the outcome of this year's match since all of Princeton's courts are now hard surfaces, and Harvard has been practicing on the Palmer-Dixon courts all spring. Today's weather forecast for the Princeton area calls for showers...
Using computer studies and other arcane gauges, most economists continue to forecast a strong business upturn this year. The consumer, however, measures his well-being by less sophisticated yardsticks: take-home pay, store prices and job opportunities. In these terms, the first two months of 1972 have given scant reason for ebullience. The result is that consumer spending, which spurted briefly last year, has again flattened...