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...Even if Saigon regroups its defenses and forms a tight perimeter around the capital, holding off the attackers until the summer rainy season slows the fighting, the Communists are likely to be on the capital's doorstep when the dry season arrives; they already have seven divisions and at least 200 tanks in the area. Without some political solution - meaning a coalition with the Communists - Hanoi and the Viet Cong will press for the military victory that they have been seeking for ten years. Saigon can probably hold out for quite a while, at great cost to any attacker...
...free-spending U.S. Marines and G.I.s. By the time it fell to the Communist attackers last week, Danang had become demoralized and swollen beyond recognition with refugees. TIME Correspondent William Me Whirter spent several days there until he was ordered to depart on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon. His report...
...civil servants in the towns they occupied, were busy saving themselves and their families. The mayor of Danang, an ARVN colonel, one night declared to a friend his passionate intention of remaining with his people; the next day he put his wife and entire family on a plane to Saigon, a luxury that not even the rich can afford without the right connections...
Many began frantically trying to find some way out of Danang by air. In one day, the price of a single one-way air ticket to Saigon on the black market jumped from $51 to $140. The traffic halted only when the military took control of the Air Viet Nam flights to provide for their own families. Then came the welcome promise that the U.S. would begin an airlift to take 10,000 people a day to Cam Ranh, a half-hour's trip by air some 200 miles to the south. But still there was panic. Even...
...current round of recriminations in Washington over Indochina and worry over the Middle East. Lashing out at what he considers a growing mood of isolationism in Congress, the President warns that the rest of the world is "losing faith in our agreements." The Secretary of Defense blames Saigon's agonies on recent "niggardly" appropriations by legislators who have voted $150 billion for South Viet Nam over the years. It is easy enough to refute such arguments as exaggerated, but they do point to a deep underlying confusion - not only between Congress and the Executive but also in the country...