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...dissident South Vietnamese soldiers and Buddhists seized control of Danang and Hue, Ky moved in troops of his own without consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained fury," the State Department cabled the embassy to stop the fighting. "This may require tough talk," read the dispatch, "but the U.S. cannot accept this insane bickering." Marine General Lewis W. Walt threatened to use U.S. jets to shoot down any South Vietnamese plane that tried to attack the dissidents, and Deputy Ambassador William J. Porter withdrew U.S. airlift and advisers from the Saigon government until Thieu...
...They emerged in the Boston Globe in the heart of the Cambridge intellectual community. Also favored were the Los Angeles Times, which is powerful in the West and runs a news service with more than 200 U.S. newspaper clients, and the eleven-newspaper Knight chain. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Sun-Times also met the same obvious criteria: a strong antiwar editorial record...
...most intriguing Viet Nam documents is an as yet unpublished cable that analysts working on the Pentagon papers studied with fascination. It was sent to President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to a proposal from General Maxwell Taylor that the U.S. dispatch 8,000 troops to Viet Nam, ostensibly to work on flood relief. Taylor's recommendation included using the troops to commit American prestige in Viet Nam, to shore up morale and provide a back-up for the South Vietnamese army and to serve as an advance force for a wider American involvement. The cable argued against...
...Post and Boston Globe front-paged other parts of the study. They too were stopped by the courts. "I would have felt left out," said Globe Editor Thomas Winship, "if the Government hadn't moved against us." Later, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the eleven-paper Knight chain turned up still more details. So many papers were printing Pentagon pieces that Editor Kenneth MacDonald of the Des Moines Register lamented: "I'm beginning to feel lonely." For some editors, it was not so much a matter of seeking portions...
Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch Nows Service who lived in Laos for four years reports that in the three years before June 1966 Laos's exports totalled $3,000,000 while imports totalled $108,000,000-an import export ratio of 36 to 1. Recent government reports say that the ratio between 1964 and 1968 was 14 to 1. Other reports run as high...