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...American official has ever said this explicitly, but the mere hint of compromise with the V.C. or Hanoi has provoked several outbursts of indignation from President Thieu. During the past few weeks, he has assured his subjects--and us--that he will never permit the Vietcong to join a coalition government in Saigon. Nor will he ever talk to the Vietcong. A halt of the bombing is out of the question. In other words, the Saigon government thinks that all the feasible means to end the war are nonsensical. Sadly, each of Thieu's brash remarks inevitably draws the American...
...this is precisely what is required. Washington should tell Saigon what virtually every sane person knows--namely that the task of destroying the Vietcong insurgency is a Sisyphean one. The U.S. should then, of course, inform Thieu that she intends to pursue all peace feelers in the hope of ending her prohibitively costly involvement in Vietnam...
...short, America must quickly change her war aims. Her leaders must decide that an inefficient, corrupt, fanatically anti-Communist government in Saigon for all eternity is not a valid aim of national policy. Once this is done--and Thieu's regime is appraised at something less than $25 billion annually--the problems of peace-making, phasing-out, and neutralization will get the attention they deserve in Washington. The U.S. government should find that the achievement of these goals requires no more ingenuity than the deployment of troops outside the Pentagon, the development of antipersonnel weapons, and the termination of trips...
...explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military leaders greeted him coolly, if at all. Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force, was scheduled to talk with him at Danang but somehow remained busy elsewhere throughout the visit...
...several camps (TIME, Dec. 1 ) to which they retreat after bloody battles in the South, the situation has become pressing. U.S. military men have advised hot pursuit of the enemy into Cambodia, but the Johnson Administration has so far declined to go along. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu insisted last week that, if allied troops were hit by enemy fire from Cambodia, hot pursuit was not only justified but "indeed a military necessity." The U.S. has launched a new diplomatic initiative to convince Prince Norodom Sihanouk and other "interested" nations, including Russia, of the North Vietnamese presence in Cambodia...