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...country was awash with snickers when Goldwater senior once suggested a little nuclear clout to defoliate those Cong-stuffed Vietnam jungles...
...Despite claims that record numbers of Viet Cong cadres have been killed or put out of action, some Americans admit that these consist mostly of lower-level officials. "Most of the Viet Cong infrastructure," they add, "is intact...
...disparity arises because officials include in their figures those hamlets that are not under actual Communist control, grading them on a descending security scale from A to C. Many of the C hamlets, however, are not even relatively safe; they belong to the Viet Cong at night, and South Vietnamese pacification workers refuse to sleep in them...
Chances for Success. In the first weeks of 1970, Thieu replaced the chiefs of six provinces that remain particular Viet Cong trouble spots. He also shifted commanders of two sensitive military regions: a special tactical zone west of Saigon, where Communist troops have recently stepped up infiltration, and the 7th ARVN Division in the northern Mekong Delta, an arena that could serve as a major testing ground of the initial, tentative steps toward Vietnamization. Long considered a weak link in ARVN, the 7th has a tough new commander to lead it against the 8,000 North Vietnamese troops prowling...
Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, returned from Paris last month after meeting with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators at the Paris peace talks...