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President Nixon said last week that 100,000 troops will be withdrawn between May 1 and Dec. 1 as part of the Vietnamization plan. As withdrawals continue, the remaining U.S. troops around Saigon will be turned into a hard-hitting strike force, a field commander said...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced American troops in Indochina now number 296,500, equal to the troop level four-and-a-half years ago. The peak level was 513,000 troops in April 1969. The total is due to drop...
...thickly jungled highlands 30 miles west of Chu Lai, Fire Base Mary Ann had long been a secure oasis for its defenders, the 1st Battalion of the Americal Division's 46th Regiment. Last week, after the base was ravaged by a handful of enemy sappers, TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen visited the blackened bunkers and cabled this account of the savage night...
...treaty, negotiated in North Vietnam last year by members of the National Student Association, calls for a total withdrawal of U.S. forces by a date to be publicly announced and an end for U.S. support of the current Saigon government...
...Cambodia, the South Vietnamese headquarters claimed its troops killed 200 North Vietnamese in Cambodia with the backing of U.S. planes. Only six ARVN men were wounded, according to Saigon...