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...attacks on "Pinkville" came on the heels of the massive Tet offensive, and U.S. troops were undoubtedly, as Calley said of himself, feeling "hyper." A few weeks before My Lai, Calley's radio operator was killed walking behind him in the first Pinkville assault. "The bullet just took his entire kidney out," Calley testified, "so he died within a matter of minutes...
Some U.S. officers in the field have called the Laos fighting the heaviest of the Indochina war. In addition, South Vietnamese losses are termed the heaviest since the Tet offensive...
...Phase III (large-unit warfare). One objective would be to hit the Saigon regime at a time when the U.S. was able to throw few troops to its support. The other objective, in this hypothesis, would be to inflict a mortal political wound on Nixon by means of Tet-style attacks, thus paving the way for the election of a new President inclined to a hastier exit from South Viet...
After his last session with Vien & Co., Abrams and white-haired U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker swept into President Thieu's Saigon Palace ?brushing past a phalanx of startled Vietnamese officials who had been waiting to offer the President Tet holiday greetings. Not until four days later, when they were summoned to an urgent briefing at MACV headquarters in Saigon, did reporters have any idea that something was afoot...
That remains to be seen. Next year's dry season may prove to be the most trying test of the Administration's strategy. The North Vietnamese have been quiet for long periods before, only to erupt in disruptive offensives such as Tet. U.S. analysts are convinced that General Giap is planning a replay of 1968 for 1972. They are equally convinced that General Abrams can head him off at the pass?somewhere in Laos, perhaps, or maybe Cambodia?or possibly even in South Viet...