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February and the Tet Offensive brought a bit of Harvard's dovishfringe up to New Hampshire to campaign for "Gene." His prospects were dim and many students disliked his unemotional approach, but as Bruce Fireman '70, a follower of SDS, said, "I don't want any anti-war candidate to do badly; a Johnson victory would be interpreted as support for the war. . . . He [McCarthy] is the only candidate we've got, we ought to help...
Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they...
...constant clash-and-compromise bargaining between South Viet Nam's two top men, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky persuaded President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept as the country's first Premier a Saigon lawyer and Ky confederate with no political experience, Nguyen Van Loc. Ever since Tet, Saigon has rumbled with rumors that Thieu was going to replace Loc, who had proved a less-than-efficient administrator in the wake of Communist offensive. "He turned out to be a turtle," even Ky admitted, "a poor upside-down turtle." Last week Thieu fired not only Loc but his entire...
Refugees jammed the bridges and choked the streets in flight to safer parts of town, many carrying previously packed suitcases-one of the precautionary legacies of Tet. They added 80,000 new refugees to Saigon's 39,000 still waiting to be resettled since Tet. But most were only temporary visitors to the refugee centers; only five relatively small portions of the city were actually destroyed, involving some 2,000 shacks and houses. The rest of those fleeing were simply getting out of the way of the fighting...
...deputy, however, died in action, as did the commander of Tan Son Nhut Airbase. But because of the remarkably swift reaction of the city's 50,000 government defenders. Saigon's civilian dead numbered only a few hundred, less than one-twentieth of those at Tet. And by week's end an estimated 2,500 Communists had died in their attempt to breach the capital's defenses...