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...have no political base, no staff," admits retired Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 60. Even so, a good many of his friends think that with all those opinions of his, notably about the war in Viet Nam, Curt might be a natural in politics. So he is being urged to go up against California's moderate Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel next year. In Santa Barbara, LeMay allowed that "if a real movement gets going for me, I might consider...
General Curtis LeMay, who retired in 1965 as Air Force Chief of Staff, last week described this limitation as "the ultimate in military blindness," added that if the "calculated risk" of heavier bombing were to fail, "then we must be prepared to fight Red China." Dwight Eisenhower said that he "would not automatically preclude anything"-including, by implication, nuclear weapons-"that would bring the war to an honorable and successful conclusion...
Died. General William H. Blanchard, 50, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff and No. 2 in command, a heavy-bomber pilot who pioneered in the daringly low-level B-29 raids against Japan in World War II, and as Curtis LeMay's operations officer planned the first A-bomb drop on Hiroshima, then spent 15 years helping to build the Strategic Air Command, all of which earned him four stars at the age of 48; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Retired General Curtis LeMay peered through his bombsight and let loose with a blockbuster. Target: the U.S. air war over North Viet Nam. "We're hitting the wrong targets," said the former Air Force Chief of Staff last week in Washington. "We're getting people killed who shouldn't be killed because of too little and too late." The U.S. attacks, LeMay remarked, "should have knocked hell out of 'em-so we must be hitting the wrong targets. We should bomb the things that really would hurt them, industry, ports, power plants. We've been...
...Bigger Risk. American planners still feel that the risk involved in blasting North Viet Nam's industrial complex-as LeMay demands-is too high. Such attacks would do little to hamper North Viet Nam's war effort, since most of its weapons and ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South...