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Holding a Grudge. Kiesinger was furious. He went on TV to disavow Schroder, saying that "the Cabinet has by no means decided to cut the troop strength of the Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...
Different Tack. Amid all the talk of increased troop levels, eight liberal Republicans in the House suggested a different tack altogether-mutual de-escalation by the U.S. and North Viet Nam in a move to get peace talks started. Headed by Massachusetts Congressman F. Bradford Morse, the group urged the U.S. to initiate a 60-day bombing suspension north of the 21st parallel, just below Hanoi. If North Viet Nam responded by closing off infiltration routes, U.S. bombers would gradually broaden the proscribed areas until the Northern raids had stopped entirely. Negotiations might then begin after each side had demonstrated...
...March, they demolished a convoy of oxcarts carrying weapons and supplies and killed 50 Viet Cong. But the night run is more often a modest operation that catches smaller groups of Viet Cong at meetings or trudging along trails. Through such harassment, the Starlight snipers hope to cut V.C. troop and supply movements at night, and deny the Communists what has been virtually a nighttime sanctuary...
...generals will come up against some weighty counterarguments, however. Many American civilian officials in Saigon believe that many more G.I.s would increase the dependence of the Vietnamese on the Americans. "I am not persuaded that troop levels are the crux of the problem," says one high U.S. official. "I think the big thing we need is a shining example of what life can be like under a proper, representative government." Also, though Hanoi may be approaching the limit of its ability to aid Communist forces in the South, there is still no assurance that it might...
...these steps, at the time, seemed more attractive -- less pregnant with domestic political controversy and criticism -- than the alternative which was to call a firm halt on our involvement. The aggregate of these individual steps -- more weapons, more advisers, a combat role for our men, progressive increases in our troop strength, bombing of North Vietnam, a widening choice of targets -- is larger by far than the sum of the individual parts. The resulting involvement of the Asian mainland is not a development that all who asked or acquiesced in the individual actions wished to see or even foresaw...