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July 1953. Korean armistice signed. Guerrilla war intensifies in northern Viet Nam. French, seeking to carry war to Viet Minh territory, occupy outpost at Dien Bien Phu in November. Ho offers to negotiate truce...
March 1954. Viet Minh besiege Dien Bien...
...Dien Bien Phu falls...
...mean, Nixon cannot have it look like an outright American defeat. Neither could any other postwar President, says Ellsberg in "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine," the principal paper in this cool, rigorously logical collection of essays, dramatic eyewitness reports and congressional testimony. Ever since the fall of Dien Bien Phu, says Ellsberg, the first law of political survival has been "Do not lose the rest of Vietnam to Communist control before the next election...
...siege of An Loc had not yet been broken at week's end, but airborne troops had managed to reach the city, which-through allied air power and the sheer endurance of its Vietnamese defenders-had held out even longer than Dien Bien Phu. TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch and Photographer Le Minh managed to enter the city last week by helicopter. Rauch was one of the first two American correspondents to reach An Loc since the siege began. He sent this report...