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Nixon made his major point on the very first question. For much of the day, he said, he had been in trans-Pacific consultation with his Viet Nam commander, General Creighton Abrams, who had told him that the South Vietnamese troops had proved in Laos that they could "hack it" against "the very best units that the North Vietnamese can put into the field." Moreover, Nixon claimed, the disruption of enemy supply lines already "assures even more the success of our troop-withdrawal program." Nixon hinted that in April he may announce an acceleration of the present withdrawal pace...
...Secretary of the Army also dismissed a war-crime charge against Generals William Westmoreland and Creighton Abrams, the former and present U. S. commanders in Vietnam, which Torres had filed last October...
With worries mounting about what was happening on Route 9, the normally unflappable General Creighton Abrams, U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, threw a monumental tantrum at his headquarters in Saigon. "You people are telling me what you think I want to know," he stormed at his intelligence officers. "I want to know what is actually happening." Said one source: "He was so mad he was dancing on the table tops...
...interview yesterday General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, said that the invasion had a limited objective, the destruction of enemy stockpiles. He denied that it was ever intended to seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Dewey Canyon II. was replaced by a Vietnamese name: Lam Son 719.* The switch was part of the coy effort to cast the invasion as an all-South Vietnamese effort, though it was initiated, planned and given the go-ahead in the White House, and was overseen by General Creighton W. Abrams. U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. The shift in code names also underscored the extent to which Indochina's long war has changed. As French Journalist and Guerrilla Historian Jean Larteguy (The Centurions) put it last week: "First you had Asians fighting the French. Then...