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...there. If the political leadership can equal these men, we're going to bring this war to an end on the right basis, and before long." Of the South Vietnamese, he said: "They are going to make it." Saigon, Nixon observed, was not going to become "Ho Chi Minh City...
...thet Lao, backed by seasoned North Vietnamese regulars, did not challenge the government's hold on the Mekong Valley, where two-thirds of Laos' 3,000,000 people live. The U.S.-backed government of neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma permitted American bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in eastern Laos, but allowed no major allied ground forays. Warfare Laotian-style also developed seasonal cycles. The Communists struck during the dry season, phasing their offensives out just be fore the rains came. The government, because of greater air mobility, usually managed to regain during the rainy...
...country. Not so, said Souvanna. There were only North Vietnamese "imperialists" in Laos, and they were there to "colonize and expand." U.S. intelligence estimates that North Viet Nam had more than 40,000 troops in Laos, mostly in the eastern portion where they guard the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...represents an overwhelming change in the arithmetic of U.S. commitment. Yet it is a tangible and substantive measure that is part of a larger strategy. For the first time since the initial contingent of 35 American military advisers arrived in Indo-China in 1950?it was the French-Viet Minh war then?the level of U.S. participation in the conflict is going down, not up. So is the draft call, which is dropping more than 3,000 in July to the lowest monthly figure so far this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations...
...First Secretary Gustav Husak was unlikely to dispel. Still echoing were the gunshots exchanged by Soviet and Chinese soldiers along the Ussuri River. Then there were the ghosts at the banquet, the men who had refused to come: China's Mao Tse-tung, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Cuba's Fidel Castro. They are the most famous figures of contemporary Communism; their stature, by any measure, dwarfs Russia's present leadership...