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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...
...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...
...scrap began as a search-and-destroy operation. The floating troop carriers dropped off two U.S. infantry battalions and one ARVN battalion at three scattered points along the Rach Hui River 17 miles south of Saigon, and the troops fanned out looking for action. When one company made contact with a Viet Cong battalion on the river, the boats rushed reinforcements up, and five air strikes were called in along with armed helicopters and the miniguns of the converted C-47s known as Puff the Magic Dragon. The Monitor and troop carriers opened up at almost point-blank range with...
Search, Destroy & Hold. Despite such heavy losses, Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam has risen to a record 295,000 men. a gain that reflects stepped-up infiltration from the North and heavier recruiting; the Viet Cong has even begun drafting 14-and 15-year-olds from the villages it holds. Though the V.C. may not be winning control of more villages, they are not losing many either. Thus far, only 500 or 600 of South Viet Nam's 13,000 hamlets have been successfully and permanently secured, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. armed forces chief...