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...consigning a third of them to pacification guard duty. That strategy was originally built on the assumption that the massive infusion of half a million American fighting men would enable the allies to win a clear-cut victory over the invading North Vietnamese and decimate the indigenous Viet Cong...
...LEADERSHIP. ARVN officers traditionally represent the cream of Vietnamese society, a social caste preserved by stiff educational requirements for officer candidates. Thus, unlike the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armies, ARVN offers little opportunity for skilled soldiers to rise up from the ranks. The result is that it suffers both in loss of potential talent and in its political image among the peasantry. Until recently, Abrams had made little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks...
...perimeter and then sitting back inside it and waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous Mekong Delta, local ARVN commanders were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer; he rates 41 superior and the rest satisfactory. In the Delta, the new corps...
...Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares to 905.69, highest since Jan. 9, wiping out nearly all the losses that followed the Viet Cong Tet offensive and the great gold rush...
...Thieu Senators issued a statement calling the American initiative "a surrender concession." Twenty-one independent members of the House of Representatives called for more bombing, not less. Most of the South Vietnamese press also warned the people to brace for a sellout. "Washington," said the Saigon daily Cong Chung, "is following in the tracks of the French...