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...SAIGON--The U.S. Command ordered another slowdown in the rate of U.S. withdrawals from Vietnam last week, cutting the rolls by only 500 servicemen, military spokesmen announced yesterday...
...quiet American buildup in Vietnamese waters (from 18,000 men to 42,000), in Thailand (from 32,000 to 45,000) and along the supply lines toward Saigon (about 15,000 in Japan, the Philippines, Guam and Okinawa) reflects the changing U.S. role in Viet Nam. By September, only about 1,000 U.S. troops will be in ground-combat roles, and their task will be solely to protect American installations supplying South Vietnamese armed forces. The main thrust of the present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South...
Despite the evidence that the military threat was subsiding, there were some decided signs of unease emanating from the Presidential Palace in Saigon. They were primarily visible in President Nguyen Van Thieu's increasing use of -and demand for-arbitrary power. During the past 2½ months, his government has ordered the arrest of thousands of "suspected Viet Cong sympathizers," including virtually the entire student body of Hué University; arrests are continuing at the rate of 14,000 per month, though U.S. and Vietnamese officials maintain that most of those detained are quickly released. Thirty-two opposition groups...
...SAIGON--South Vietnamese paratroopers battled communist troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri yesterday and other clashes broke out along the western flask of the northern counteroffensive...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the loss of three more U.S. Air Force Phantom jets over North Vietnam, with all six crewmen missing...