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...services). More than 30% of the men aged 16 to 45 in South Viet Nam are in uniform, and that percentage will soon rise even higher. Last week, as part of the overall buildup of Allied forces agreed upon in Washington last month, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky announced that an extra 69,000 men will be added to the army, known to Americans in Viet Nam as ARVN (rhymes with Marvin...
Building Pigpens. Well aware of the South Vietnamese army's inadequacies, the Vietnamese joint general staff is at work on plans to reorganize its forces "from top to bottom," as Ky puts it. One proposal would disband the four corps commands and the ten divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building...
...eleven, only three are rated as having a real chance of winning: Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, whose vice-presidential running mate is Premier Nguyen Cao Ky; former Premier Tran Van Huong; National Assembly Speaker Phan Khac Suu. The Thieu-Ky ticket is still strongly favored because both men are well known, and they have army backing. Tran Van Huong is considered the leading civilian candidate. A Southerner with a large following in the Mekong Delta, Huong as Premier won considerable sympathy for his efforts to stabilize the government before the military replaced him in 1965. Says...
There must also be a policy that allows of stubborness, suspicion, ill-will, obtuseness, and the waywardness of internal political struggle on the part of those with whom we are involved. No one, after all, would counsel Hanoi to repose high hopes in negotiations with Nguyen Cao Ky. Any policy which relies on negotiation is a policy that is at least partly at the mercy of others. We must also have a course of action which is within the scope of our own authority. We must invite negotiations. We must have a better policy than mindless escalation should negotiations prove...
...point on which hawks and doves can agree is that the fighting should be ended as rapidly as possible. Neither group would complacently tolerate an extended, seemingly endless, defensive war. Much of Galbraith's proposal--his appeal for an end to the bombing and for a disassociation from General Ky and his coterie--is obviously laudable, but, because it does not hold out the possibility of an imminent termination of the war, it is unlikely to elicit any significant following...