Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk of the need to find a formula to end the war. Some suggest a bombing halt to test whether, as United Nations Secretary-General U Thant maintains, Hanoi really will show up at the negotiating table in a matter of days. Others propose the establishment of a joint command to give the U.S. greater leverage over the erratic South Vietnamese army. But one U.S. officer argues: "We've got to make sure that when we walk out of here some day, we will leave a force in being that knows how to handle itself...
...Target. Enemy troop movements of late have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother...
Ready for Anything. The U.S. command does not rule out the possibility that the Communists might hit at Khe Sanh and Hué simultaneously, or indeed throughout Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces. To be ready for anything, General Westmoreland last week announced the creation in the north of Provisional Corps Viet Nam, to be headed by Army Lieut. General William B. Rosson, 49. Rosson will have battle command of all actions in the two provinces, but will report to Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the Marines' commander in Viet Nam. The Marines had been riled...
...provide tight protection for have-nots like themselves. Also, as the. only Communist there on friendly terms with West Germany and Israel, Ceausescu gave notice that he would not join in the usual attacks on them. As for the Warsaw Treaty itself, Rumania would like to see its overall command rotated among all its members instead of being monopolized by Russian marshals...
...experienced national campaigner who managed his late brother's Presidential victory in 1960. Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...