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Nearly half the ten U.S. combat divisions in Viet Nam are jammed into I Corps, the northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, facing a potent concentration of Communist regulars (see overleaf). There is growing concern that the 5,000 Marines at the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh can be overrun by the North Vietnamese infantry divisions that are inexorably tightening the circle around them. Warned Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell: "I am afraid this position may be difficult to defend. I hope we will be able to reinforce our troops there sufficiently." Even South Viet...
Since Jan. 1, the Communists have shelled 49 district and provincial capitals and attacked eight of them. Twice in three days they temporarily occupied provincial capitals within 30 miles of Saigon. In northernmost I Corps, the Communists have already made 98 separate attacks on the U.S. Marine-ARVN Combined Action Platoons and overrun two of their outposts so far this year. Though they have won no major victories, the Communists have made a sizable show of force and demonstrated their ability to fight hard, if they choose to, in nearly every province in Viet Nam. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, Deputy...
Next day the North Vietnamese struck in I Corps-South Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces-in a coordinated set of attacks on more than a dozen allied positions. In one, the North's rocketeers fired 24 Russianmade 122-mm. projectiles at Danang Airbase, destroying one F-4 Phantom jet and two spotter planes and heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley...
...more pacification workers than in 1966. The ARVN regulars constitute South Viet Nam's military spine, and on them the U.S. has expended its greatest training efforts. Those efforts, too, need improvement. Of the ten regular divisions, only three are considered "good" by U.S. commanders: the 1st in northernmost I Corps, and the 7th and 21st in the Delta. One division, the Delta's 25th, is rated virtually a disaster; the other six divisions range from "spotty" to "promising...
...Determined to avoid main-force encounters with U.S. troops in South Viet Nam except in the northernmost I Corps, which can be supplied directly across the Demilitarized Zone...