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CLARK. If there is enough time, then ARVN [Army of the Republic of Viet Nam] may very well shape up. They've now got some fairly decent units. They know how to work artillery and fly planes and run boats. They're acquiring some logistics sense, which comes hard. But I think we're going to have some real headaches with ARVN and probably some fairly disheartening setbacks. It's going to take a lot of work and a lot of patience, maybe more than the American public has to give. But so far, so good...
PINES: If we give ARVN enough time, it probably can solve its problems-lack of confidence, getting enough experienced NCOs and junior officers and sufficient equipment. Whatever indications we have are encouraging. Still, we can't be sure unless there is a more definitive test. It might come in the Mekong Delta...
...virtually everyone but the military, that is. All leaves were canceled. Outside Saigon, South Vietnamese armor stood guard. In Hue, flak-jacketed ARVN Rangers carrying M-16s mingled with the holiday crowds. Memories of the 1968 holocaust were very much on the military's mind, but there was optimism as well. In the delta's lush Ba Xuyen province, a district chief discounted chances of a VC attack: "We've driven them out and I think they know better than to return." Earlier in the week, the enemy had mounted a minioffensive: 70 cities and bases were...
...that in many areas major progress has been made in securing the countryside and turning the war over to the Vietnamese. It concedes that 1) pacification of the countryside is progressing, and roads and canals are the safest in years; 2) the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) has improved, though it remains spotty and heavily dependent on U.S. support troops; and 3) an effective home-front militia is armed and operating...
...Success. In the first weeks of 1970, Thieu replaced the chiefs of six provinces that remain particular Viet Cong trouble spots. He also shifted commanders of two sensitive military regions: a special tactical zone west of Saigon, where Communist troops have recently stepped up infiltration, and the 7th ARVN Division in the northern Mekong Delta, an arena that could serve as a major testing ground of the initial, tentative steps toward Vietnamization. Long considered a weak link in ARVN, the 7th has a tough new commander to lead it against the 8,000 North Vietnamese troops prowling the Delta. Thieu...