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...officers, the surer the defeat. Jump-suited Churchill was ordained by the Sukhomlinov rule to prevail over the strutting dandy Adolf Hitler. Japan's high command surrendered in aiguillettes and swords; General Douglas MacArthur accepted in tieless khaki. The authors point out that shortly before the 1968 Tet offensive. American fashion experts had designated fastidiously uniformed General William Westmoreland as one of the best-dressed American men. But the Sukhomlinovian verdict on Viet Nam is a curt "data incomplete...
Intelligence reports indicate that the North Vietnamese may be in a position by the end of January to launch a new, but relatively small Tet offensive in Cambodia. The Tet lunar new year starts...
Nixon's brusqueness with Hanoi did not stop with his carefully worded statement on bombing. He flatly rejected the idea of unilaterally extending a Christmas cease-fire in Viet Nam through Tet, arguing that to do so would endanger U.S. troops. He branded North Viet Nam an "international outlaw" for its treatment of American prisoners and its failure to accept an offer, made last week by Ambassador David K.E. Bruce in Paris, to exchange approximately 800 American and South Vietnamese P.O.W.s for ten times that number of North Vietnamese...
...clearing out, a new enemy offensive could catch the U.S. off balance; in any case, the South Vietnamese will have to bear the brunt of any such concerted attack. Predictions of a big enemy offensive bloom perennially at this time of year, though none has taken place since Tet of 1968. Now intelligence experts point to the enemy's buildup of men and materiel and expect a major offensive early in 1971. The U.S. air attacks are meant to blunt that offensive before it comes. There is every reason to believe that what is already known in Washington jargon...
...opposed the arrival of American combat troops in the South in 1965- and who, until recently, were serving prison terms because of this opposition), as well as the representativeness of its membership, attuned observers in Saigon consider its establishment to be the potentially most important political development since the Tet offensive...