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Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird ordered a top-level team of logistics specialists to Vietnam Wednesday to determine whether Saigon requires more American military...
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said the group, hended by one of Laird's top civilian assistants and accompanied by five generals, will consider both Saigon's military needs and what additional measures may be needed to protect the remaining U.S. troops...
...national moratorium has called on the U.S. government to: stop all bombing throughout Indochina; set a specific date for the immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Indochina; and end all American support and economic aid for the Thieu regime in Saigon...
...South. And the logical extension of his statements is that despite the veil of continued U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam, the Administration is prepared to fight its undeclared war, if only with deadly mechanical support weapons, until a non-communist, pro-American government can stand on its own in Saigon or until there is no more Vietnam over which to fight...
Intertwined in the events between October 11 and November 22 are many themes. The role of the Russians and the Chinese in the secret negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnam is as yet unclear. Nor are Saigon's motives readily apparent for accelerating the Phoenix program and for relocation of civilians at such a disadvantageous time for the secret negotiations. Who encouraged false optimism among the Senators on the prisoner of war issue and why? Why was the Le Duc Tho trip to Paris cancelled the day after Agence France Presse reported it was to take place? The questions...