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...probability, the last U.S. Army combat unit in Viet Nam will be the 7,000-man 3rd Brigade of the First Cavalry Division (Airmobile), which is responsible for the security of a vast area of Vietnamese countryside surrounding the huge American installations at Bien Hoa, Long Binh and the Tan Son Nhut airbase outside Saigon. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch joined one 3rd Brigade company as it pushed off from a fire base 35 miles east of Saigon to begin a patrol in search of North Vietnamese infiltrators. His report...
...aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi, which angrily charged that "the insane Americans have attacked many populated areas" in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Quang Binh provinces. The North Vietnamese claimed to have shot down 19 American planes; the U.S. owned up to only four downed aircraft...
Nguyen Thi Binh's plan in seven points of July 1, 1971, is just another expression of the tactical flexibility of the Vietnamese and their negotiators. Binh seeks to tell us the following...
...provisional administration, not a provisional coalition, of the various social, political and religious forces in South Vietnam--regardless of their pasts but who now favor peace and national concord--would displace the Thieu regime. Binh did not rule out Thieu's participation in the provisional administration; a person who does not favor "peace, independence and neutrality" may participate, but the provisional administration will favor those goals...
Unlike past PRG proposals, Binh's July 1 plan fails to declare the nature of the broadly-based regime that would organize elections or that of the regime that would follow elections...