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...that South Vietnam's urban centers haven't witnessed anti-war activity in the past. Even after the 1968 Tet offensive, however, public opposition to the fighting remained weak and sporadic; the regime had little trouble silencing its antagonists. Then, early in 1970, a new trend developed. Initially centered on rather specific, often personal grievances, it has evolved into a concerted movement for peace that has so far proved impossible to exorcise. A few of the more dramatic events reflecting this trend were dealt with briefly by the U.S. press. But such fragmentary accounts conveyed little of the urgency...
...think the Tet offensive was a very striking indication to them and to everybody what it means to win. During the Tet offensive, in effect, the NLF just won the whole war. They took over all the cities- they hadn't taken over all the bases and they hadn't taken over all of Saigon but basically they conquered the cities after having taken the countryside...
...United States can't lose. We can always fight from the sea. During the Tet offensive the NLF actually did threaten the bases and, in fact, the helicopter bases were attacked. I think about a thousand or fourteen hundred helicopters were destroyed on the ground. So what the U.S. did was send in a helicopter carrier...
South Vietnam is experiencing a new broad-based anti-American rebellion-blacked out by the press-that is "the most significant political event since the Tet offensive," a former Harvard teaching assistant recently expelled from Vietnam claimed here yesterday...
...caricatures exhibits none. They include Wilkinson, a cowardly war correspondent; a general who invents a major enemy offensive to derail the Paris peace talks (rival U.S. Army and Marine Corps units end up bombarding each other); and a CIA agent who, while posing as a beggar, learns of a Tet offensive against the most cherished spot in Saigon...