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...President Johnson reiterated in June, "seeks no wider war." Yet even as it tried to shush Khanh, American officialdom privately conceded anew that retaliation against the north has not been ruled out. At least three turns of events could trigger direct retaliation against North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh: 1) assassination of Khanh by the Viet Cong, 2) a renewed terrorist campaign against...
Crippling an Infant. In 1954, after Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnamese guerrillas smashed the French at Dienbienphu and Viet Nam was partitioned, the U.S. threw its support in the south to an ex-law student and anti-Communist nationalist, Ngo Dinh Diem. But Diem's infant state ,was soon crippled. Though the Red guerrillas who had been fighting the French in the south were supposed to be repatriated to the north, many of them stayed in the south, disguising themselves as peasants and caching weapons. In 1957 they rose up against the government...
...carefully chosen targets. U.S. officers are still convinced that there simply are no easy, dramatic formulas for victory in Viet Nam. The primary effort must be to win in the south, they feel, and Khanh must drastically improve his army's fighting ability before proposing a contest with Ho Chi Minh's formidable northern battalions...
...North Vietnamese government to return to the south. The trip home began at a camp south of Hanoi where units of infiltrators were assembled, then driven south by automobile to within 15 miles of the border. There, they set out on foot, following the spidery footpaths of the Ho Chi Minh trail west into Laos, then southeast across the mountainous border of South Viet Nam. The march was slow-five to seven weeks. Before they crossed into Laos, the whole band changed from their Viet Minh uniforms into the khaki of the Pathet Lao, and at the South Viet...
...when Soviet pressures on Berlin brought the cold war near the boiling point, Abrams commanded the U.S.'s key 3rd Armored Division in West Germany. In 1962 Abrams returned to the U.S. as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations for Civil Affairs. The title sounded ho-hum, but the job was far from that. When race riots broke out on the Ole Miss cam pus in Oxford that fall, Abrams sped to take command of the troops that had been alerted there. He did the same in the bloody Birmingham riots of May 1963, in constant contact...