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...announcement has yet been made on his successor in Saigon, but the most likely choice is his deputy, General Frederick Weyand, 55, a tall, thoughtful man who would supervise the steadily dwindling U.S. presence in Viet Nam. Westmoreland, who retires June 30, is scheduled this week to receive the Distinguished Service Medal from President Richard Nixon as a parting gesture...
...Those who proclaim a great victory at An Loc cannot have it both ways," writes TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "Either the North Vietnamese were badly beaten in their effort to take the town and therefore do not have a force of any great size still blocking the road, or else Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh and his troops have been, in the bitter words of one Western military expert in Saigon, 'culpable in their failure to push on in there.' " By keeping the column stationary, Minh and his officers may actually have exposed...
...addition to his forces outside South Viet Nam, at least 80,000 men left within the country. Unless President Thieu and his forces can keep the North Vietnamese from forming up in battle strength again-or some sort of tentative cease-fire is agreed upon-most U.S. advisers in Saigon fully expect the North Vietnamese to strike once more, perhaps between mid-July and mid-September...
...entirely in fact. Though the 3rd was mustered out, one of its three battalions will remain behind. The 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, will form the nucleus of a force of 2,000 or more men named Task Force Garry Owen. The troops will help protect the Bien Hoa-Saigon-Long Binh area. That is basically the job of the 3rd Brigade, except that now, as the task force's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Walker Jr., put it last week, "we have more terrain and fewer men to cover it with...
...simply settle in with relatives or friends. Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees estimated last year that some 5,000,000 people had been displaced at one time or another since 1965. Now the latest wave of refugees has created a host of new worries for Saigon, which has been forced to look for more funds at a time when U.S. aid has been cut back. The regime recently announced a new emergency three-phase program to care for the refugees. But by the government's own estimate, it will be able to provide only about...