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The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

Johnson Plans Electronic Wall for Vietnam

World Outlook Vol. 5, No. 23, 9 June 1967 · p 595 · 101 words

This issue printed no contents list, so this title was read by machine from the typed headline, which carries OCR errors. The printed headline is on the scan.

Vietnam and Indochina

JOHNSON PLANS ELECTRONIC WALL FOR VIETNAM

Johnson's camarilla of braintrusters have come up with a new one: an "electronic barrier" to seal the border of south Vietnam.

Rowland Evans and Robert Novak writing in the June 1 New York Post describe the projected barrier as made up of “electronic mines that transmit the slightest movement in the surrounding : terrain to a central detection receiver." This would touch off a “heavy air attack on the trespassers."

Planned for the Demilitarized Zone, they suggest it could also be used on south Vietnam's border with Laos and Canbodia. The cost? A mere $3,500,000,000.

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