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Mendelsohn questions the rosy picture of military progress presented by the United States government, and says the Thieu-Ky regime may be nearing collapse...
...said that what was happening was that the Thieu government was using this as an occasion to take revenge and create harrassment for the Buddhists against whom they feel they have many scores to settle...
When the Communist shellfire began hitting Saigon in the middle of the night, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was whisked from his villa to a secure haven for the second time in three weeks. So was President Nguyen Van Thieu, as fears spread of Viet Cong again rampaging through Saigon. Six 82-mm. mortar rounds exploded outside the U.S.'s "Pentagon East" headquarters, where General William C. Westmoreland was sleeping. The commander was not hurt, but shell fragments wounded four sentries...
...crisis also brought about a stepped-up mobilization, which the U.S. military command has long encouraged. President Nguyen Van Thieu announced that henceforth every able-bodied man over 17 years of age would receive military training, also ended deferments for students and civil servants...
...demobilization of soldiers who have completed their military service will be stopped, and veterans mustered out will be recalled to active service. The measures would add some 65,000 men to the 650,000-man ARVN. Thieu also announced that the nation's taxes would be raised...