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While Secretary Laird was in Viet Nam, TIME'S Saigon correspondents -Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, Robert Anson and Burton Pines-sat down to compare their own informed assessments of the present state of the war. Among their comments...
...ANSON: The crunch will come when ARVN gets whacked by the North Vietnamese. I mean really whacked. What happens when they start losing a company here and a company there, or maybe a battalion? Will the whole force crack? That's a question we can't answer. We can only hope. But I have my doubts. I think the most hopeful sign is the progress of the RFs and PFs [Regional Forces and Popular Forces, responsible for defending their home districts]. The very fact that you don't hear them called "Ruff-Puffs" so much any more...
...being worried about getting shot. Nobody who has traveled this country can seriously argue that things have not improved. Roads are open, produce is getting to market. That does not make the people loyal to President Thieu, though. I think most of them wish all politicians would go away. ANSON: I personally feel that while pacification may be stronger today than at any time within recent memory, it is still extremely vulnerable to a determined thrust. We shouldn't be surprised if we wake up some morning to find that the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese have returned...
...Quang Ngai province last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Anson talked to some of the survivors of the massacre. Do Thi Chuc, an aging woman, said she had lost a 24-year-old daughter and a four-year-old nephew at My Lai. "All I remember," she said, "was people being killed. There was blood all over. White Americans and black Americans both did the killing. Heads were broken open, and there were pieces of flesh over everyone." Sobbing, she said that she too had been wounded and had fallen among the bodies...
...young lance corporal escorting Anson was unimpressed. "They're all V.C., you can just tell," he said. "You don't see many young men in there, do you? All women, children and old men. Where'd all those guys go? Out with the V.C., that's where. We come in at night and sneak into one of their hootches and you know where they are? All in their bunkers. They gotta...