Word: regroupment
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...conversation with the casual advice that perhaps FOCUS should consider working with some of the other Projects before it came to him. A half hour later I was back in the Volks heading South to the next Project, thinking that, if this continues, we might have to regroup in Cambridge next week for more meetings and discussions...
...Altogether, the Communists are believed to have, pulled a quarter to a third of their 120,000 main-force troops out of South Viet Nam into North Viet Nam and the Cambodian and Laotian sanctuaries. It is still not clear whether that withdrawal decision was tactical, to refit and regroup -as most U.S. military men believe - or whether it was political, to encourage and maintain the bombing halt...
...this a genuine lull, or had the Communists been hurt so badly by Abrams' successful tactics that they were merely pulling back to regroup, as they have done so often in the past? Many in the Johnson Administration seemed willing to interpret the lull as a deliberate signal from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese wanted to move on to a new phase in the Paris peace negotiations. A minority, centered in the Pentagon but also including Rostow and Rusk, held out in the absence of firm and far-reaching North Vietnamese concessions. Said one U.S. diplomat: "I have always...
Still, the Communist units may have pulled back merely to regroup and refit, as they have done so often in the past. Washington concentrated on an amplitude of other significant clues that a bombing pause might be in the works. There has been an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks, ranging from Peking and Paris to the Pedernales. Three weeks ago, Cyrus Vance, the No. 2 U.S. negotiator in the slow-paced Paris peace talks, flew home to confer with the President. Early last week Johnson cut short a stay at the L.B.J. ranch to return to Washington...
...battlefields of South Viet Nam had been unnaturally quiet. There were those who argued that Hanoi was purposefully scaling down the war and that the U.S. should reciprocate by ending all bombing of North Viet Nam. The allied command insisted that the Communists had mere ly paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks...