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...Communists are not defeated now. No doubt the North Vietnamese would like to get the war over with too, but they simply have not been hurt enough, as far as anyone can tell, to make them accept a settlement that they would regard as negating their achievements on the battlefield. One avenue that perhaps offers some hope is for elections organized by both sides with the help of outside observers. Thieu has offered to permit an international body and an electoral commission, including representatives of the National Liberation Front, to supervise the elections. Thus far, the Communists have denounced that...
Whether or not Pompidou's ploy works, it was plain that the unequal distribution of wealth in France-and elsewhere-was one of the root causes of the current unrest. Said Political Commentator Jean Ferniot: "The war has moved from the political to the social battlefield." And, as in beleaguered Britain, nobody can be sure where the next skirmish might break...
...Island accident on his credibility in raising a moral issue, Senator Edward Kennedy converted a routine dinner speech in Boston into a chance to resume-with even more sting than before-his attack on the Administration's war policy. "We have made only token troop withdrawals on the battlefield, an exercise in politics and improvisation," he charged. He called Viet Nam "difficult to justify, impossible to win-a war not worthy of our lives and efforts, a conflict that has made us ill as a people." There will be no peace, he predicted, so long as the Administration insists...
...conceded to be South Viet Nam's most ineffectual. A U.S. general calls the 5th "absolutely the worst outfit I've ever seen," and a Vietnamese General Staff member was quoted as saying that until last year the 25th was "the worst division ever to enter any battlefield east of Suez." In the past year, both divisions have improved slightly, as has the lightly regarded 18th Division. Now that the U.S. is withdrawing the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, the defense of Saigon rests in these shaky hands...
...Viet Nam?whether guerrillas or regulars from the North?has been their spirit. The young men sent to the South, as U.S. fighting men have painfully discovered, made excellent soldiers. Tough and well-disciplined, they stood their ground under massive American firepower, then rose to charge. And the battlefield was only one test: the struggle southward along the tangle of jungle paths called the Ho Chi Minh Trail often lasted four to six months, during which many perished of disease, malnutrition and exhaustion. If a trooper survived that trek, he had proved himself strong indeed?and there seems little question...