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...military and economic aid to Saigon?as well as all U.S. arms now in South Vietnamese military hands. Said Kissinger: "They are asking us to align ourselves with them, to overthrow the people that have been counting on us." The terms of withdrawal and the future makeup of the Saigon government thus remained two huge barriers to agreement, and the essential difference between Hanoi's nine-point position and the eight U.S. points...
...TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud reported: "If Nixon meant that Vietnamization has been successful on the battlefield, his assessment was premature. During the past two years-the years of Vietnamization-the war inside South Viet Nam has been primarily a war of nerves, featuring mainly sapper attacks and small-scale skirmishes. But not even the occasional battles between main-force units in Cambodia and Laos have been conclusive in any real sense." The first test of Saigon's forces on their home ground is likely to come in the Communist offensive that is widely expected...
...size, South Viet Nam's 1,100,000-man military machine is second in Asia only to China's. Saigon's air force is supposed to receive its full complement of 1,200 aircraft before the end of 1973. That goal may not be reached on schedule, but the South Vietnamese already account for 90% of the air activity within their own borders. They also account for nearly 100% of the casualties, both ground and air. During the past few months, ARVN soldiers have been dying at the staggering rate-in view of the low level...
...Viet Cong structure is currently so weak that the North Vietnamese army will be fighting virtually alone. American military experts also concede, though, that the NVA could wreak some "spectaculars," including the seizure of some towns. Even Defense Secretary Laird, who claims 100% confidence in Vietnamization, predicts only that Saigon's troops will win 75% of its battles...
...have never suggested any such policy. Indeed, I did not become in any way connected with the U.S. Government's activities in Vietnam until the summer of 1967 when; arriving in Saigon on a mission for the State Department. I found that the war, "drastically and brutally speeded up by the American impact" (to quote myself), had driven large numbers of Vietnamese into cities, more than doubling and perhaps tripling the urban population. I could hardly have suggested this be done; it had all been accomplished long before I began thinking about Vietnam on behalf of the United States Government...