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...Troop Totals. Korea: 500 U.S. military advisers present at start, building up to a peak of 400,000 troops; some 1,250,000 Americans served in all, counting replacements. Viet Nam: a 685-man advisory mission in 1961, expanded to 72,000 servicemen as of last week with prospects that the number will rise to nearly 200,000 by year's end; so far, an estimated 200,000 Americans have served...
...June 29, 1964, Major General Nguyen Khanh was Premier; since then, there have been six changes of government, and the current incumbent is Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, whom Lodge has never met. Moreover, at the time of Lodge's 1964 leavetaking, there were 16,000 U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, restricted to an advisory role and forbidden to carry the war to North Viet Nam. Today, American troops total 67,000, many of them are operating in combat units, and U.S. planes daily attack the North...
...communique that gave Park some help with his political and economic problems at home. It promised South Korea new development loans of $150 million, even if it gets separate aid from Japan. It disclosed agreement in principle on a pact that will give Korean courts some jurisdiction over American servicemen and American civilians employed by the military. And it reminded the world that the two Presidents had in common the burning desire to defeat Communist aggression and see Asia prosper...
Decisions to this effect came last week after a two-day Hawaii conference. On hand were Defense Secretary McNamara, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Earle Wheeler, Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific area, General William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Maxwell Taylor, and a bevy of Assistant Secretaries of State and Defense...
...Bruce Henderson and Senior Editor Champ Clark used the reporting of the three-man team as the chief material for the cover story. All worked in the hope that the result would help to close the gap of understanding by giving readers everywhere a better appreciation of what U.S. servicemen are doing in the war in Viet Nam, how they are doing it, how they feel about it, and how they add up the price of success or failure...