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...infantry divisions that are inexorably tightening the circle around them. Warned Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Richard Russell: "I am afraid this position may be difficult to defend. I hope we will be able to reinforce our troops there sufficiently." Even South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu is said by associates to believe that the Americans should evacuate Khe Sanh rather than risk a defeat that could curdle U.S. opinion about...
...since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect the population and even whether the U.S. really wants...
...runners-up in the presidential campaign against Thieu, including the man who received the greatest number of votes in Saigon itself, Truong Dinh Do, have been arrested. As has the man who was behind him in the number of votes he received, Pham Khae...
What seems to be happening is what Professor Galbraith predicted. The government of President Thieu and Marshall Ky is very near colapse. What they are doing is rounding up and threatening all the possible forces who can oppose them. They're making sure if they can that there will be no possible civilian government to follow them...
...city or two is badly struck, if there are civilian uprisings--which I would not be surprised to see in the next few months because of what we are doing to defend the cities now--if this did happen, what would the response of the United States be? If Thieu and Ky fall, as Professor Galbraith suggests, what...