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...right place at the right time, Arnett combines hustle with a discerning eye for detail and an acute ear for devastating quotes, including those that symbolize the tragedy of the war. He was there, for example, when an Army major looked over the ruins of Ben Tre after the Tet offensive and said, "The city had to be destroyed in order to save...
...verdict three weeks ago, calling the Cambodian operation the "most successful" military action of the war, a judgment likely to be echoed in his written report to the nation this week. Others, perhaps just as hastily, have compared America's "success" in Cambodia to the results of the Tet offensive of 1968, which Lyndon Johnson considered an American victory. In a narrow military sense, Tet was, but it also was the decisive point of disenchantment with the war for a substantial number of Americans...
...hamlets were heavily damaged, and Thanh My was virtually destroyed. At least 114 inhabitants died in the raid in the worst Communist massacre since the deathly days of the 1968 Tet attacks. The survivors wandered dazedly through the smoldering ruins of their homes. One old dwarf carried two severed hands wrapped in paper-all that he could find of his twelve-year-old son, who was in one of the bunkers. Even as the people of Thanh My mourned their dead, the women of a village controlled by the Viet Cong only a few miles away showed up to carry...
...growling about U. S. engagement in a wider war. The Pentagon regards Laos, with its neutral but wobbly regime, as a possible base for Communist infiltration into Thailand. The Administration worries, also. By overrunning Laos, the Communists would dramatize the fragility of Vietnamization-much more effectively than by another Tet offensive. The casualties from Tet cost Hanoi dearly. It would take little military muscle, though, to smash the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma, and the Pentagon knows it. The Nixon Doctrine, however, commits the President to nonintervention and narrows his options in Laos...
Late in the week, as the 24-hour Tet cease-fire ended, there were reports of increased battlefield action, mostly in the Mekong Delta and in the north, near the Demilitarized Zone. The fighting was on a small scale, but no one in South Viet Nam was forgetting that shortly after the cease-fire expired last year, the enemy launched an offensive that lasted for 36 days...