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...disclosure coincided with reports that bad weather and increased North Vietnamese attacks have slowed the U.S. supported South Vietnamese advance into southern Laos. The Saigon command reported that the ground troops have advanced only one mile in the past three days...
South Vietnamese troops have reportedly penetrated 14 miles into Laos. South Vietnamese military headquarters said the advance is slow because the 11,000 troops inside Laos are finding so many munitions and food stockpiles. Inventories of caches given out by headquarters in Saigon seem higher than what field observers have noted...
Still, while it lasts the French have a few good laughs on the Americans as they sit around the tennis club in Vientiane, which is to Saigon's Cercle Sportif as the IAB must be to New York's Racquet Club. The club is integrated; after a few gins-and-tonics the Laotians and the French get to laughing together, and to toasting "permanent friendship between our two nations...
...argued that no safe-conduct from Hanoi could be trusted?even though it might be in Hanoi's interest to keep it. A more convincing objection to the idea is that complete U.S. withdrawal, including support forces, would seriously undermine if not destroy the Saigon regime. Thus it is likely that Abrams' "cavalry" actions are not necessary primarily to protect U.S. troops but to bolster the Saigon regime and assure its survival. If so, that could be an entirely legitimate goal of U.S. policy (though its cost might be subject to debate). But that is not the way the Administration...
Abrams works in the huge headquarters building of MACV (Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam), next to Saigon's airport. He is at work at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week. In his map-lined office he dips regularly into one of the cigar humidors that, surround him. He confers three or four times a week with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, three times with General Cao Van Vien, the South Vietnamese chief of staff, and even more often with his intelligence officer. Whenever he can, he choppers to the field and once a month flies to Bangkok to visit...