Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more pressing concern is the shortage of trained troops. The Administration insisted that reinforcements will not add to the 525,000 total already scheduled to be in Viet Nam by July, but are merely an acceleration of the buildup. Westmoreland has made no official request to exceed the ceiling of 525,000-that is, not yet. However, no one will be surprised if the general does ask for more men, and gets them: he is already strapped for combat-ready ground units...
Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...
...assuage Seoul's sensibilities, Troubleshooter Vance joined up with U.S. Ambassador William Porter for five days in South Korea, came away with a renewed declaration of amity between the two countries. Park's government was promised modern weapons. In return, South Korea consented to forget its concern for face and not oppose the bilateral Panmunjom talks, which the U.S. feels must remain secret to be effective...
Nonetheless, as enemy shells fell on Saigon and at least 25 other places as far south as Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta and as far north as Phu Bai on the coastal plains of I Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...
...sole formulation to come out of the Council regarding such protests--a request that this visit from Dow be postponed--was rejected by the Faculty last week. In its concern for asserting the principle of free recruitment, the Faculty took action which may precipitate another battle between the College and many of those students who are agonized by the war in Vietnam...