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...never was to "protect" withdrawing U.S. troops, even though that has been the longer-range justification advanced most often by the Administration. From the start, Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly any attack that might upset two approaching...
...toll has been relatively light-69 dead or missing, 64 wounded, 73 helicopters destroyed-the South Vietnamese suffered considerable casualties. Saigon admits to 918 ARVN dead, but unofficial estimates put the toll closer to 2,000 crack troops dead or missing and another 4,000 wounded. Compared with Cambodia, Lam Son has so far yielded only one-fourth as many captured enemy weapons, one-half as much ammunition, one-fifth as much rice and about the same number of enemy dead-at a cost of about seven times as many ARVN troops dead...
...agonized over my ability to behave like a policeman, in the sense and to the degree that all policemen must behave like policemen. But the first time I was put out on the street by myself-for sixteen hours of traffic direction the day of the Kent State-Cambodia demonstration last spring. I found that the uniform did half my work or me. People look at you, think you're a policeman, and you are. On the day of that relatively benign assembly. I was one of scores of rookie policemen who rapped and took our lunch breaks with groups...
...power for ground troops, it may reduce American casualties and thus, perhaps, make the war more acceptable to some segments of the American public. It is not, however, a policy conducive to achieving a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Indochina. The recent expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos has made the implications of Vietnamization more and more apparent. Even if these actions were to achieve certain short. range military objectives, these are in the service of a policy that is itself unsound and immoral. Vietnamization and its concomitant political and military actions represent a continuation...
...among the brass that "the other side" is all too appreciative of the chopper's virtues. Soviet pilots, they note, have been flying Russian helicopters, including rocket-firing gunships, in support of the little-noticed guerrilla struggle in the Sudan (TIME, March 1). When the allies went into Cambodia last spring, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap himself hastened to one of Cambodia's eastern provinces for a look-see. His means of transportation was a Soviet-made helicopter...