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...1950s. For all its failings, the U.N. has helped to keep most of the world's angry opponents at arm's length, producing a host of skilled conciliators in the process-Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, Canada's Lester Pearson, America's Ellsworth Bunker. Common to such men is a firm belief that conciliatory techniques (negotiation, mediation, arbitration) apply equally well to all disputes, marital as well as martial, between races and generations. It is a faith based not on Utopian dreams but on hard-won experience...
...shelling of Saigon began at 4 a.m. One mortar round hit near the U.S. Embassy, another close to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence. Numerous shells landed in the Chinese section, Cholon. But the main enemy target was Newport, the U.S. dock facilities in the Saigon River, where Communist forces unsuccessfully attempted to follow up a mortar and rocket attack with an assault. Within two hours the city had largely become quiet again. The Communists also shelled, among other cities, Hué, Pleiku, Can Tho, Kontum, My Tho and Quang Tri. Four U.S. Marines were killed and six wounded...
...Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker read the ledger, the U.S. position looks encouraging-and the Pentagon insists that the readings do not represent the sort of optimism that flowed all too easily before the shock of Tet. As the military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with...
...unknown to those on the ground until the huge bombs fall on them. According to the U.S. estimates, 15,000 enemy troops were killed or injured by U.S. bombardment. The bombs obliterated trenches, leveled hills, scorched whole acres of land. They even wiped out the North Vietnamese headquarters bunker, killing all those inside. The bombing touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than 2,000 fires in the immediate vicinity of Khe Sanh, indicating that ammunition and gasoline caches were being hit hard. In all, the Air Force estimates that the bombing destroyed 3,500 tons of Giap...
...alone if the U.S. withdrew support. Said he: "If the U.S. is no longer able to help us, I will appeal to other allied nations such as South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand to help us." Privately, President Thieu warned U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker that South Viet Nam reserved the right to repudiate any political agreement that the U.S. might reach with Hanoi...