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Especially heartening to the beleaguered Vietnamese leaders is the impending increase of U.S. Special Forces men, whose numbers will be doubled to 1,400. Gung...
Veterans say that most Americans in the field go through almost the same emotional pattern. First comes two months of gung-ho spirit, then four months during which their sense of humor keeps them going, followed by five months of growing exasperation and often outright disgust, and one month of relief because the one-year tour of duty is coming to an end. But for all that, the average U.S. soldier while on duty in Viet Nam retains the basic condition of good morale-the continued desire to fight. There is little illusion about the enormity of the task...
...boys down the Charles have never really been known for gung-ho spirit, but this year M.I.T. has good reason to whoop it up: the school has the best basketball team in its history, and their quintet is meeting Harvard tonight in the I.B.A...
Reddick is a gung-ho type of a vastly different style from Cowles. A man of strong conservative views, he has declared himself glad with Goldwater, distrustful of foreign aid, suspicious of the Negro civil rights revolt. He is now on the lookout for "a good Constitutional columnist. I'd give my right arm to have Fulton Lewis...
...direct opposition to this is a small but determined core of State Department liberals, known around Washington as the "Gung Ho Boys," who sometimes seem more interested in over throwing the heavy-handed Diem regime than in pushing the war against the Viet Cong. Among the leaders of the State Department clique is Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. His friends at the State Department admire him as an independent thinker; his Pentagon critics have dubbed him "the field marshal" because, they say, he tries to run the whole military-political war in Viet