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Casually, and with characteristic relish, he announced a series of major appointments guaranteed to make headlines. General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, was becoming the Army's new Chief of Staff. Did that signal a shift in the Administration's conduct of the war? Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy, was off to Paris as the new U.S. Ambassador to France. Did that signify a move to weaken the Kennedy forces, a new American approach to the intractable Charles de Gaulle, a fresh approach to the war on poverty...
...talk about possible mobilization to meet America's needs in Viet Nam, one nagging question inevitably arises. With 3,426,680 men in uniform, why should the U.S. have to call up reserves and expand the draft in order to give General William Westmoreland the 206,000. men he wants...
...Target. Enemy troop movements of late have led the command of General William Westmoreland to revise its estimates of the likely next big move of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnamese army units along the DMZ appear to be shifting eastward, away from Khe Sanh, toward Quang Tri City or Hué. The 304th NVA division, which was south of Khe Sanh, has been moving with truck convoys through the A Shau valley toward Hué. If Hué rather than Khe Sanh is the enemy's big target, that will not bother...
Ready for Anything. The U.S. command does not rule out the possibility that the Communists might hit at Khe Sanh and Hué simultaneously, or indeed throughout Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces. To be ready for anything, General Westmoreland last week announced the creation in the north of Provisional Corps Viet Nam, to be headed by Army Lieut. General William B. Rosson, 49. Rosson will have battle command of all actions in the two provinces, but will report to Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the Marines' commander in Viet Nam. The Marines had been riled...
This erosion of support may force Johnson to reevaluate the situation in Vietnam instead of capitulating to General Westmoreland's latest troop demands...