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...order to get some new blood circulating in the Pentagon, the Army advised 25 older generals last week that they must take early retirement. The Administration is still waiting (after three months) for the Senate to confirm General Creighton Abrams as its new Chief of Staff. The Senate Armed Services Committee has not yet finished its probe into the question of whether Abrams, while serving as U.S. commander in Viet Nam, knew that his Air Force chief, General John Lavelle, had permitted 23 unauthorized bombing raids over North Viet...
When President Nixon nominated General Creighton Abrams to take over as Army Chief of Staff, military experts praised Nixon's choice and predicted that Abrams would win quick Senate approval and get on with the job. At 57, after a long and distinguished Army career, Abrams might normally have had the post almost by acclamation. But now, his appointment may have run afoul of election-year politics...
...General Creighton Abrams' gift for making the best of nasty situations goes back at least as far as the World War II incident those lines recall, in which he outbluffed a nest of German army troopers. His record in four years as U.S. commander in Viet Nam indicates that he has not lost the talent. Now he faces a still tougher task. Nominated last week by President Nixon to succeed General William C. Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff, Abrams, 57, must tackle the job of regenerating the Army in the wake of Viet Nam and, if Nixon...
...Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Division, lined up on the parade field at Bien Hoa airbase last week, as a spectators' section filled with high-ranking officers from the U.S. and South Vietnamese commands. General Creighton Abrams, newly appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff, was there; so was Military Region III Commander Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh, who pinned the National Order of Viet Nam, fourth class, on the chest of Brigadier General James F. Hamlet, the 3rd Brigade commander. Then, while a pickup band played slightly off key, Hamlet slowly rolled up the brigade's guidon...
...Vietnamese had to win the battle on their own. The U.S. has only 65,000 ground troops remaining in South Viet Nam, and they are now assigned solely to defensive roles. As the biggest Communist blitz of the war continued last week, American advisers-and the U.S. commander, General Creighton Abrams-no longer had the decisive say in how or where the South Vietnamese fought; the decisions were being made by President Thieu and the South Vietnamese general staff. The U.S. could supply airpower (with more than 1,000 planes in the region) and dominate the Gulf of Tonkin with...