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...conference, U.S. casualties were the highest since the war began. All that anyone agreed on in Paris during Clifford's tenure was the "shape of the bargaining table." But then, with what seemed to be uncharacteristic lack of caution, Nixon went Clifford one better on the schedule for troop withdrawal by saying: "I would hope that we could beat Mr. Clifford's timetable." Nixon's aides hastily explained that the President was only expressing a desire and not setting a deadline or making a promise. Some professed to take him more literally. Senator Edward Kennedy said Nixon...
Chemical and biological warfare has had a long and lethal history in the U.S. In 1763, General Jeffrey Amherst, the British troop commander in the colonies, sent smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians. During the Civil War, both sides poisoned wells, a tactic almost as old as war itself. American doughboys were sprayed with poison gas by the Germans in World War I-and sprayed them right back. Since then, even during the mass killings in World War II, the U.S. has never used deadly CBW weapons except for incendiaries. Even so, experimentation and stockpiling have continued apace...
When Nixon and Thieu met in the modest house of the U.S. base commander at Midway, Nixon moved quickly to the troop question. "We have claimed for years that we were getting stronger," Thieu replied. "If it is so, we have to be willing to see some Americans leave." Thieu agreed that the announcement might help the Paris negotiations. Said Nixon: "We do not want to break the umbilical cord to your people." The troop replacement would not, said Thieu...
...search of one. After 45 minutes, she returned. While they waited, the two Presidents talked of problems of military leadership and negotiating strategy. Later in the day they would discuss political conditions and economic reform in South Viet Nam. But the main business at hand was that of troop replacement and they took a break to go into the bright sunlight and face the press. Nixon began what may some day be viewed as an historic statement: "I have decided to order the immediate redeployment from Viet Nam of the divisional equivalent of approximately...
...seen by outsiders except the most hardy tourists. There may be fewer of those in the future; last week Russia acknowledged that most of the Trans-Siberian Railway had been off limits to foreigners since June 1. The ban was presumably imposed to prevent non-Russians from viewing Soviet troop movements and military hardware along the border. On the following pages are rare, recent color photographs taken in the troubled border areas. They are the work of an enterprising Italian freelance photographer who, just prior to the ban, completed a trip through Siberia arranged by Intourist, the official Soviet tourist...