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Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird told a Pentagon news conference yesterday that he believes current U. S. troop withdrawal timetables will proceed on schedule...
...purpose of his trip to Vietnam will be to "assess the progress of the Vietnamization program; to assess the military assistance programs; and also to confer with Gen. Creighton W. Albrams on what lies ahead as far as further troop reductions" are concerned, he said...
Laird also stated that the United States is currently slightly ahead of its troop withdrawal schedule. Moreover, he predicted that by January 5, "we will be below...
...Innocents is another such war-glory story. Charles Flood spent a year in Vietnam, flying around with American Army units and doing some occasional fighting, and now tells his story. But Flood's year in Vietnam was in 1967, when American troop levels were still increasing, which suggests how outdated this book is; and although the names in the book do coincide with Vietnamese geography, the war is barely recognizable in the story, which suggests how near-sighted Flood...
...Innocents might have been harmless, though inane, war-time storytelling, except that Flood cannot resist editorializing. This is 1967, remember, and Flood's prescription for ending the war is to increase troop levels to two million American soldiers in Vietnam and thereby "pacify" the countryside. The only officer Flood meets who advocates American withdrawal is a Harvard graduate, as is Flood, so Flood takes a fraternal interest in showing the officer the flaws in his argument. Flood gets along better, however, with yet another Harvard officer, who explains that "the survival of our civilization is ultimately a function...