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...random attacks but deliberately planned to cause heavy casualties and political impact. Elsewhere there were isolated outbursts of fighting, the sharpest since mid-June, including a battalion-sized battle near the DMZ. The respite in major ground action continued into its eighth week, but it was clearly a selective lull...
Another Push. Statistics have dipped before-only to soar again when the Communists started new offensives. During the period between October 1968 and February 1969, U.S. casualties were relatively low and there was talk then, as today, of a lull. At the time, U.S. commanders warned that the Communists were preparing for another push. Indeed, the lull ended abruptly-and bloodily-with the Communist post-Tet offensive. This time, however, more seems to be involved. "This lull is not merely one of statistics, but more of gut feeling," reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines from Saigon. "Some of the highest American...
...Hanoi and the Communist negotiators at the Paris peace talks have offered no hint that the lull has any political significance. Given the Communist reticence, U.S. experts in Washington and Saigon advance three theories to explain the lull...
...South. If President Nixon's eight-point Viet Nam proposal of May 14, which included a plan for mutual troop withdrawals, caused a reevaluation by the North Vietnamese, then orders implementing any changes would have reached Communist units by mid-June-just about the time the lull began. The theory is bolstered by the fact that a push, expected by American intelligence for June 19 or 20, was hurriedly called off by the Communist command in the South. Another drive, thought to have been scheduled for about July 21, was similarly canceled on short notice. > Hanoi has opted...
...term is "protective reaction," which has a less aggressive ring to it. In fact, the U.S. still continues to seek the enemy-but the enemy is less evident. "In principle, we are doing precisely what we have been doing all along," explains one high-ranking U.S. officer. "Lull? What lull?" asks a G.I. at a fire base near Saigon. "We still patrol every day." Although large-unit allied sweeps have been cut down and are used only when there is solid intelligence of a large enemy concentration, reconnaissance patrols have not been reduced...