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...that remained in government hands. By the end of the week four more provinces had fallen to Communist control for a total of 17, fully three-fourths of South Viet Nam's territory. Six full South Vietnamese divisions had disintegrated. The Communists occupied such refugee-swollen coastal cities as Qui Nhon and Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh. Although they slowed their advance toward week's end, presumably to consolidate the huge areas that had unexpectedly fallen into their hands, they were also infiltrating men into the south at the rate of about 1,000 a day in preparation...
...Binh Khe pass, gateway from the highlands down to the coastal plain, against two North Vietnamese divisions. The price had been high: nearly two-thirds of its men had been killed or injured. Early in the week the outgunned and outnumbered division gave way, leaving open the route to Qui Nhon, third largest city in South Viet Nam (pop. 230,000) after Saigon and Danang. If Qui Nhon went, so would Nha Trang, 100 miles to the south...
...roughly resembles one proposed by retired Army Lieut. General James Gavin, who in 1966 pro posed that American forces draw back to such easily defended enclaves along the South Vietnamese coast as Nha Trang, Cam Ranh, Qui Nhon and Danang itself. These populous cities have economic and military value; they also contain vital facilities such as harbors and airstrips that offer the best opportunity for successful defense. Although most American military experts rejected the enclave strategy when Gavin first proposed it, many of them are now giving Thieu high marks for his strategy of retreat...
Those of us who live in the irrational may moderate our shame. Who has set us here, in this vocation, at this late date, out of due time? To all the question is to imply an answer there: is a qui, a Who, who has set; we have not accidently fallen, we have been placed. As of course we already know in our marrow...
Rodino's strategy has been to try to impress all factions of his committee with the thoroughness and fairness of the staff work. Southern Democrats, under some political pressure from home to back Nixon, have been relatively qui et so far, but many are leaning toward impeachment because of the staffs factual presentation of evidence. The committee last week spent a day on the illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, mainly to mollify the more liberal Democrats, even though that issue can scarcely gain widespread support as a separate impeachment article...