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...there was no doubt that the North Vietnamese had launched their largest offensive in South Viet Nam since Tet 1968. Hanoi clearly was seeking a decisive military victory that would both display the impotence of Thieu's regime and embarrass Richard Nixon politically. For Washington, and indeed for Saigon, it was the first real test of Vietnamization, a policy that the Administration had pursued-at a cost of 12,000 U.S. lives and three more years in a divisive and unpopular war-in order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration...
...south in the Mekong Delta (Military Region IV), there was a rash of shelling, and attacks hit airfields outside two provincial capitals. For the moment, however, the Communists had really opened only one new "front"; that was in Military Region III, the mid-country region that encompasses Saigon. That area was rapidly becoming the main worry of the U.S. and South Vietnamese commanders. At Loc Ninh, a rural district capital 75 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, North Vietnamese troops routed the South Vietnamese defenders, organized "people's committees," and set up antiaircraft positions. Other enemy troops...
...South Vietnamese relief force defending the embattled town of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, broke into a wild four-mile retreat under furious enemy rocket fire yesterday, a Vietnamese officer caught in the battle said...
...fighting intensified around An Loc, the North Vietnamese fired a series of five artillery rockets into a Saigon suburb, attacking he capital for the first time since the Communist offensive began 16 days ago. An air base and some civilian housing were bombed, killing 15 persons and wounding 6, police officials said...
...CRUCIAL military battle for Vietnam has been underway for a week, and as the reports come in, it is clear that the Nixon Administration hopes to preserve the Saigon government by a major increase in the use of American air power at the cost of thousands of lives and the further destruction of Vietnam. Nixon reasons that Americans won't protest the mechanized continuation of the war as long as only Vietnamese lives and the fate of the Vietnamese nation is at stake. Massive protest now can prove him wrong and limit his military options...