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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific Commander Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp in Washington last week, is "tight, very tight." Said South Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Tran Van Do during a Washington meeting with representatives of the six nations* that have sent troops to his country: "I cannot exclude the possibility of larger-scale invasion. Our two northern provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien are presently under terrible pressure." Columnist Joseph Alsop believes that "a new Battle of the Bulge" may be in the making. "Everything is now to be gambled [by Hanoi] to reverse the war's unfavorable trend," predicts Alsop...
Long-Term Confrontation. Few military men expect Hanoi to launch a full-scale invasion across the DMZ-though Sharp says: "I just hope they do. Then we can use our firepower." But most experts foresee a bitter, long-term confrontation in I Corps, where the Communists' supply lines and infiltration routes are shortest. For that reason, the U.S. has airlifted nearly a full Army division into the area, while the South Vietnamese have rushed in three elite battalions to augment the thinly stretched forces on the spot-Lieut. General Lewis Walt's 75,000 U.S. Marines, two understrength...
Looks & Flamboyance. On a national scale, several candidates are also undergoing crash courses in the art of running for the presidency, for which the electorate will vote in September. The two chief prospective candidates, of course, are the two generals who now rule the country: Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu. Both want the presidency, but each wants it with the support of the other and without splitting the armed forces into two camps. Thieu, at 44, is older than Ky by eight years and undoubtedly commands more respect among his fellow officers. A Catholic...
...Government, for example, was supposed to have decided more than a year ago to spread the population-control message. In practice, it has spent a scant $9,000,000 in the past twelve months on family-planning leaflets and small-scale birth-control advice to countries that asked for it. Last week AID Administrator William S. Gaud told Congress that with its hoped-for $20 million budget in the next fiscal year, AID will at last begin to finance the manufacture and distribution of oral contraceptives in countries that have voluntary family-planning programs. Putting money where its mouth...
...reaching people beyond the usual anti-war constituencies. Petition campaigns might be used to provide popular support for the demand against invasion and to interpret it to large number of people. It is clear that a series of complementary activities would be generated by any program of large-scale arrests, and that through the crises of arrests a spirit could be generated to lift people out of their lethargv. It is even possible, though not probable, that the kind of national crisis which could be created before the fact would force Johnson to back down...