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...enclave strategy" proposed by formes General James M. Gavin in this month's issue of Harper's seems the most realistic solution to that problem. Walter Lippman, who has favored this strategy for many months, calls it: "the best of a bad business, not glorious, but the least costly way of repairing the grievous mistakes of the past...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
...phased withdrawal from Viet Nam. To Richard Nixon, proponents of enclave warfare were neither hawks nor doves but "turtles" who, he said last week, want to withdraw into their shells and "turn the Vietnamese people over to the Communists." Lyndon Johnson reacted even more acerbically to General Gavin's proposal: "I'm not going to have our troops return to the coast and let our marines go fishing while the Viet Cong ravage the countryside. I'm not going to hunker up and take it like a mule in a hailstorm...
...less predictable argument was advanced by retired Army General (and ex-Ambassador to France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
Once the cover story was scheduled, Saporiti and Gavin Scott, who is joining the Madrid staff after a three-year stint as Buenos Aires bureau chief, went to work. Over the next several weeks, together with the bureau's Jean Bratton, they covered the countryside, interviewed scores of Spaniards, high and low, to get a wide-angle look at the new Spain. For two weeks they were joined by Writer John Blashill, who was TIME'S correspondent in Madrid for four years (1956-60). To catch the visual aspects, Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin, who handles color projects...