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...alleged anticipation of a new Tet offensive, the United States last week launched its most massive air attacks of the year. Coupled with new fighting in Cambodia and Laos, these attacks belie Nixon's claims of winding down the war. The Tet offensive--if indeed ever planned--has, in fact, never materialized, and Nixon continues to advertise a bogus timetable for illusory peace, a schedule geared only toward his all too likely reelection...
...return of so much airpower to the Indochina battle-field hides the fact that the Nixon Administration does not really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi...
...Viet Nam." The White House has been encouraging such forecasts of trouble, for obvious reasons. Richard Nixon is taking no chances that the U.S. public will be surprised by a bloody flare-up in South Viet Nam-as it was, with fatal consequences for the Johnson Administration, in the Tet offensive of February...
...borders may not move for months, preferring to psych Saigon with what the military calls a "credible threat" rather than risk heavy casualties in an open fight. But most of the experts predict trouble for next month-specifically, around Feb. 15, the beginning of the three-day Tet lunar New Year celebration. Says Lieut. Colonel Robert Brownlee, a U.S. adviser attached to a South Vietnamese regiment in the Central Highlands: "The enemy's got a new goddamn division and three good regiments across the border in this area, and Tet is coming and Nixon's going to Peking...
...main Communist thrust is expected. Already, three North Vietnamese regiments are grouped in Binh Dinh province, which is rated as the least secure of the country's 44 provinces. There General Ngo Dzu, the area commander, expects the Communists to attempt "popular uprisings" in the style of Tet...