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...question that may never be settled is whether a reduction in supplies ? because of cutbacks in U.S. military aid ? fatally undermined ARVN's confidence. According to one line of argument, that same scarcity made it impossible for ARVN to continue the tactics learned from the U.S. ? constant harassment and interdiction of Communist troops to keep them off balance and to prevent them from massing in numbers capable of launching a coordinated, deadly offensive. Ceilings were placed on the number of shells that field guns and mortars could fire daily, and there was a severe cutback in helicopter...
...replacement of equipment lost in battle by ARVN. At the same time, there was no diminution in Moscow and Peking's backing of Hanoi; aid in 1974 is estimated to have totaled $1.57 billion. Defense Secretary Schlesinger maintains that Pentagon analysts underestimated the adverse impact an aid cutback would have on ARVN's "morale and organizational cohesion and resiliency...
When Japanese industries flooded the University in 1973-74 with $2.5 million to study Japan, it was the culmination of an effort begun by John T. Dunlop, then dean of the faculty in early 1972. Dunlop, foreseeing the cutback by 1975 of $500,000 in Ford Foundation funds to study Japan, and understanding the need to increase one of Harvard's less-developed areas of study, scraped together a team of professors and organized a task force on East Asian studies...
Thieu's long-range prospects are uncertain. There could easily be a resurgence of dissent, especially if the military situation continues to deteriorate. Any major cutback of American aid would obviously damage his position. But it might also encourage the non-Communist opposition in Saigon to work toward setting up a new government more willing to reach a negotiated settlement of the war. It is difficult to predict what the outcome would be. Certainly, the Communists would be influential in any kind of coalition government that might arise; they may well dominate it. That result would hardly please...
Economically, too, Saigon has shown some surprising strength in recent months. True, the rate of inflation has been running at around 40% a year, while soaring oil costs have resulted in a gaping foreign trade deficit. But a strict austerity program for petroleum and a cutback on imports has reduced the outflow of foreign exchange. More important, South Viet Nam in 1975 should become a net rice exporter for the first time since...