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...October 26, President Thieu told the French paper L'Aurore that the war had lost its political significance because there was no longer any fighting near urban areas: it "is now becoming a military affair." In the interview, Thieu said that he wanted his splintered opposition to unite in the formation of a "loyal opposition" against the Communists who would be forced to surrender or be destroyed...
...LATEST Nixon escalation of the War in Southeast Asia--the bombing of Haiphong and Hanoi--renews the U.S. commitment to defend the threatened Thieu government at any cost. The new escalation is open-ended and runs the clear risk of catastrophic confrontation with the Soviet Union. The war will not go away: Nixon remains committed to military victory. It must be resisted by the American public...
...ever saw." Then came the ground attack. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops, with Russian-built tanks and artillery, swept down through Quang Tri province, sending 50,000 refugees fleeing south and U.S. advisers scurrying to their helicopters. As his stunned military forces struggled to regroup, President Nguyen Van Thieu appeared on TV to deliver a grim ten-minute speech. "This is the final battle to decide the survival of the people," he said...
There may have been a touch of apocalyptic hyperbole in Thieu's words. Nonetheless, there was no doubt that the North Vietnamese had launched their largest offensive in South Viet Nam since Tet 1968. Hanoi clearly was seeking a decisive military victory that would both display the impotence of Thieu's regime and embarrass Richard Nixon politically. For Washington, and indeed for Saigon, it was the first real test of Vietnamization, a policy that the Administration had pursued-at a cost of 12,000 U.S. lives and three more years in a divisive and unpopular war-in order...
...last February. Evidently, last week's offensive began Phase 3: an effort to pin down South Vietnamese forces where they are weakest, inflict casualties, and discredit Vietnamization. The final phases are at tacks on major cities (quite possible) and a general uprising leading to the fall of the Thieu regime (farfetched...