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Nixon also declined to shut the door on the possibility of a South Vietnamese invasion of the North-an idea that South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky has repeatedly mentioned. The President is aware that any full-fledged attack against North Viet Nam could draw China into the conflict, and he has taken extraordinary pains to reassure Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos...
...addition to Goldwater, Thurmond and Mitchell, the club will visit with such Republican stalwarts as Rep. Geraid R. Ford (R-Mich.), John A. Volpe, Secretary of Transportation, Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.), and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan on Monday...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...
...Saigon, however, Vice Premier Ky addressed a group of South Vietnamese pilots and suggested that ARVN might "have to cross to the other side of the Ben Hai River" and hit the North Vietnamese on their own ground. Ky's offhanded talk, one Washington official shrugged, "keeps the enemy worried, and that's what we want...
When asked about the possibility of an invasion of the North by South Vietnamese troops, Nixon said he would not make any predictions on what action the Thieu-Ky regime might feel "impelled" to take in order to "protect its own national security...