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...appointed civilians, on the tactical level by military professionals. Because of the complexity inherent in a war of limited purpose, the civilian, political control of Viet Nam is that much more intense. The American generals in Viet Nam have civilians looking over their shoulders at all times; General William Westmoreland confers at least twice a week with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, presents the White House with tactical and strategic plans worked out for as much as six months ahead. The details of those plans are digested every Tuesday in a quiet second-floor dining room of the White House, where...
...aides have resisted that temptation more often than they have succumbed to it. The ground war in South Viet Nam, up to and including the call for massive air strikes by B-52 heavy bombers that fly all the way from Guam, is largely in the hands of Westmoreland and his generals. Westmoreland has had to clear with Washington such operations as thrusts into the DMZ, the shelling of North Viet Nam, the movement of U.S. troops into the precarious and populous Mekong Delta. It is in moves of that sort, and primarily in the air war over North Viet...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The role of South Korean troops in the Viet Nam war is examined in "The ROKs: Savages or Saviors?" Film of the Tiger Division in action, plus interviews with Korean Prime Minister II Kwon Chung and General William Westmoreland...
...Said Westmoreland when he returned to the Pentagon: "I got everything I want...
Died. Eugenia Childs Westmoreland, 81, mother of General William Westmoreland, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, a tiny (5 ft.), genteel Southern lady who recently greeted talk of her son as presidential timber with a pert, "Oh my, he's too young to be President"; of congestive heart failure; in Columbia...