Word: westmorelands
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Earthy Soldier. The same gift for deftness and diplomacy, still widely unsuspected, emerged in his dealings with South Vietnamese officers. Assigned in 1967 as deputy to General William Westmoreland, Abrams courted top Saigon officers, accepting slights with patience and devouring a Vietnamese meal intended to make him gag-chicken heads, goat meat and paddy...
...first-and perhaps last -brush with politics, former Army Chief of Staff and retired Viet Nam Commander General William C. Westmoreland, 60, last week discovered that a political campaign cannot be run like a military one. In the state's first Republican primary (the G.O.P. previously picked its candidates in convention), a mere 34,000 voters went to the polls...
Admitting that he had been "an inept candidate," undone by his blunt speech and stiff bearing, Westmoreland went back to editing his memoirs, due for publication by year's end. Edwards is given almost no chance of survival in the November election against the winner of a Democratic runoff next week. That race pits Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 58, against a promising newcomer in South Carolina politics, former Harvard Star Quarterback Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, 36, a Charleston investment banker...
...Today Westmoreland is seeking the Republican nomination for the governorship of South Carolina and the U.S. has ended its official combat role in Southeast Asia. But despite all the shuffling of actors and the valuable lessons the United States is supposed to have learned during its 14 years of involvement in Vietnam, not much has changed. American Southeast Asia policy continues to be dictated by the same basic assumptions and anti communist fervor which have guided it from the start...
American involvement in Vietnam has gone underground but the light at the end of the tunnel, which Westmoreland, Eisenhower and so many others finally admitted they could not see, is still a long way off. And the light will continue to be until Martin and the Nixon administration abandon their efforts to adhere to the rigid dicta of the fifties' anti-communism and the pocket-book interests of American corporations and military factions...