Wednesday. April 21, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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McNamara, Johnson Confer; Viet Nam Strategy Talks End
WASHINGTON —(UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara arrived back in Washington today to report to President Johnson the results of his high-level Viet Nam strategy talks.
McNamara's jet transport landed at nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after a flight from Honolulu, where he met with ambassador Maxwell D. Tayler, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the U.S. military commanders in South Viet Nam and in the Pacific.
THE CABNET MEMBER landed at 6:10 a.m. (CST).
The defense chief was scheduled to confer with the President, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and McGeorge Bundy, Johnson's national security adviser, at the White House at 11:15 a.m. today.
DISCUSSING INFILTRATION, McNamara said that in a recent action in which two "Viet Cong or Communist" battalions were encountered, 90 per cent of the small arms and 100 per cent of the large weapons were "of Chinese or Communist bloc manufacture". He said, "We sometimes fail to understand the importance" of actions to defeat the Reds in the south. He said the Vietnamese forces are going to be expanded and there will be increased use of both U.S. and South Vietnamese air power to support them.
McNamara's jet plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base at 7:10 a.m. EST.
the United States must assume that at some point Russian missiles will be introduced into the war in South Viet Nam.
U. S. OFFICIALS reported last week that a site for Soviet missiles, presumably of the high-altitude SAM surface-to-air variety, was under construction near the Hanoi area in Communist North Viet Nam. McNamara said Tuesday he could not say whether the missiles are now "operational."
He said, however, that the Russian missiles were not a topic of discussion at his Honolulu meeting Tuesday.
Shortly before leaving for Washington Tuesday night, McNamara told newsmen in Honolulu that
TERMING THE day-long session a "very profitable conference."
He said that North Viet Nam had increased the flow of men and materials into the South along overland routes, through Laos and along "sea routes over the beaches of South Viet Nam."
McNamara indicated that there would be a major step-up in efforts to block the long South Vietnamese coastline.
"We will seek to interdict those routes by assisting the South Vietnamese navy with the use of U.S. Navy ships and personnel," McNamara added, however, that this did not mean American ships would begin operations immediately in South Vietnamese waters.
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