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...grown from ten to 25 in the past year. One of that number is Illinois Republican Charles Percy, who is now asking a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam, leaving the South Vietnamese government to survive or expire on its own. Ohio Democrat Stephen Young demanded that Westmoreland be replaced by "a more competent general" because he has been "outwitted and outgeneraled...
...House side, Wisconsin Republicans Glenn Davis and Vernon Thomson predicted that Westmoreland would be fired by Easter. The general, after four grueling years in Viet Nam, is due for relief, and Johnson does not rule out his return. Nevertheless, the President insisted: "I have no intention of seeing him leave. I have no plan for him to leave...
...least well run-as long as the other side can repeatedly determine when and where the action is to be. Johnson responded to Westmoreland's latest request for help with determination, giving the marching orders just 48 hours after the general's message arrived. Yet once again the U.S. was on the defensive, reacting to the enemy's initiative...
...whisked from his villa to a secure haven for the second time in three weeks. So was President Nguyen Van Thieu, as fears spread of Viet Cong again rampaging through Saigon. Six 82-mm. mortar rounds exploded outside the U.S.'s "Pentagon East" headquarters, where General William C. Westmoreland was sleeping. The commander was not hurt, but shell fragments wounded four sentries...
Waiting for the Thrust Khe Sanh, the imperiled northern position where some 6,000 U.S. Marines are surrounded by 40,000 NVA regulars, waited wearily through another week for what General Westmoreland still believes will be the largest battle of the war. Though the big enemy push failed to materialize on several predicted dates, the massed Communists were indeed closing in. "I see no reason to believe that they'll stop now," said Khe Sanh's commander, Colonel David E. Lownds, 47. With new NVA bunkers spotted only 300 yards from Marine lines, corpsmen with stethoscopes knelt...