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...refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Ky's militant allies; on the other, powerful neutralists like Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. In this situation, Thieu cannot afford to countenance the N.L.F.'s claim to speak for all the people of South Viet...
...area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into the DMZ, killing...
Danang was infiltrated briefly three weeks ago, but the real enemy interest seems to be elsewhere. Farther south in I Corps, the U.S. Americal and the South Vietnamese 2nd Divisions pushed west of Quang Ngai city last week to try to forestall an anticipated attack on that provincial capital. The entire North Vietnamese 3rd Division is believed to have moved north from II Corps into Quang Ngai, a historic Communist stronghold where the Viet Cong might attempt to set up a provisional government if they could win control of the city even temporarily. If that move succeeded, its propaganda value...
...ending the war. One, which he clearly does not think very likely or desirable, contains a grim extension of Rockefeller's pullback proposal. It is nothing short of further partition of Viet Nam, in which Hanoi would be given South Viet Nam's northernmost province of Quang Tri and part of Thua Thien south of it. Another involves the creation of a third, more or less independent buffer state between North and South Viet Nam, carved out of both their provinces along the DMZ. A major drawback to these schemes is U.S. assurance to Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma...
...General William Westmoreland who decided that the base would have to be held. A withdrawal from North Vietnamese encirclement, difficult at best, would not only be a major political and psychological setback for the U.S., he reasoned, but would leave Quang Tri province and the cities of I Corps open to North Vietnamese attack. Before committing the U.S. fully to Khe Sanh's defense, however, President Johnson went to the extraordinary length of extracting a written pledge from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that it could be held...