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Besides his political activities, DiCara keeps busy with civic organizations. He is Cubmaster of Troop 66, a committee type at the Knights of Columbus, an assistant in the CYO program at St. Gregory's, and a member of the Hyde Park Most Precious Blood Catholic Young Adult Club...
Despite the extension of the war to a third country, Nixon said that U. S. troop withdrawals from Indochina will continue "on schedule...
...advent of the dry season, they have made fuller use of the trail than ever before (see box. page 28). American commanders have longed to cut the trail ever since the U.S. entered the war. Contingency plans providing for everything from hit-and-run attacks to a permanent troop barrier across the route were drawn up in 1965, but there were formidable arguments against such moves. Aside from the political consequences, there was the fact that at least two divisions might be needed to secure the trail for any length of time...
...supplies in the Laotian pipeline. According to the briefers, 90% of the materiel earmarked for South Viet Nam was being shunted into I Corps. The buildup obviously presaged trouble in the coastal cities of Hue and Danang. But MACV asserted that it also posed a "serious threat" to U.S. troop withdrawals and that a "preemptive offensive" was planned with "limited objectives." Few reporters in Saigon doubted that the jargon was a verbal screen for a direct ARVN assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...Troop infiltration, which has run as high as 17,000 a month in the current dry season, is hardest to detect. Recruits are marched single file along foot trails at intervals of five yards, each wearing camouflage greenery. The trip takes between three and five months with occasional stops in primitive way stations for rest and resupply. The attrition rate due to disease, bombing and desertion runs as high as 15%; yet Hanoi keeps sending replacements...