Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months since President Johnson announced the U.S. military buildup for Viet Nam, draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
...classifications of 2,505,540 men-not counting 2,498,023 4-Fs-are being reviewed. Last week, in the course of an optimistic election-eve report on Viet Nam, McNamara predicted that draft calls would be halved during the next four months because of a slower rate of buildup for the war. Nevertheless, Selective Service officials declared, the review of present exemptees will proceed apace, to replenish the manpower drain to date and prepare for contingencies...
...thus help Malaysia, which supplies one-third of the world's rubber. U.S. aid officials were also studying requests for at least a modest amount of economic aid to support Malaysia's ambitious five-year development program, which would suffer if funds were diverted to a defense buildup to replace departing British troops...
Encouraging Report. McNamara's last previous trip to Viet Nam had been eleven months ago, when the American buildup was just getting under way and the military effort against the Communists was stalled. This time he found much to be encouraged about. Noting that the Americans have now seized the initiative, he reported that "the pressure on the Viet Cong, measured in terms of the casualties they have suffered, the destruction of their units, the measurable effect on their morale, has been greater than we anticipated...
...last time McNamara was in Viet Nam, the U.S. had 180,000 men in the country and was just beginning to untangle the logistical lash-ups caused by the unprecedentedly swift buildup. This week he will find a force of 320,000 men who, in the eleven months that have intervened since his seventh visit, have kept the Reds from winning a single major battle, have 'discouraged them from mounting any attack in battalion strength or greater since March, and are finding that the badly hurt guerrillas are ever more willing to surrender. Seldom, if ever, have the Communist...