Some of the most stringent criticism yet leveled at the President's management of the war came last week from the Stennis Committee, which rushed into print a 20-page report on its three-week inquiry into the course and conduct of the U.S. air offensive against North Viet Nam.
Charging that the Administration has consistently turned a deaf ear to the concerted advice of its military leaders, the Senate subcommittee said that as a result the U.S. has failed to mount "a systematic, timely and hard-hitting, integrated air campaign against the vital North Viet Nam targets. This policy has not done the job and...