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...supplies that never made it down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, as well as casualties. The official, and probably inflated, Saigon estimate stands at 13,863 dead. White House officials maintain that the North Vietnamese are "at the edge of an abyss." To many of Asia's non-Communist capitals, however, it looks as if they are at the edge only because they just pushed somebody else over. Lam Son, concluded Singapore's tough Premier Lee Kuan Yew, "was asking more than the South Vietnamese army was ready to give or able to give." Berita Yudha, Indonesia...
More for Less. The U.S. would also have to accept a prospect that many Americans would find unhappy: spending more without getting much operational control of the regime. A non-Communist regime in Saigon would of course represent a sharp defeat for Hanoi and, indirectly, for Peking. Therefore North Viet Nam could be counted on to continue throwing everything it has against the South. In such circumstances, American money alone probably would not be enough to support the Saigon regime. U.S. air power, which propped up the South Vietnamese in Laos, and other support would probably be required...
...Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am. Nor would Western airmen want to be dependent on the Soviets for spare parts. Eager for high prestige and hard currency, the Russians are making a determined effort to sell their TU-144, as well as many other planes, to airlines in the non-Communist world...
...major themes of Doi Dien's articles in the past year (confiscated off the newsstand for eight straight months), have been not only an end to the war, but also opposition to American dominance of South Vietnam. It has appealed for reconciliation between Communist and non-Communist Vietnamese...
...Southeast Asia oil stems from predictions that within the next ten years the industrial world will consume as much petroleum as was produced in the entire previous history of oil. The United States consumes one-third the world's production, and American petroleum companies control three-quarters of the non-communist supply. While only 3 per cent of the U.S. supply comes from the Mid-East, the 59 per cent of Mid-East production controlled by American petroleum companies is sold to the oil-hungry nations of Western Europe and Japan. The recent discord in the Mid-East between...