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...wake of the Communists' Tet offensive against South Viet Nam's cities, some officials in Hanoi seemed convinced that they had both Saigon and Washington on the run. Once talks got started, they were unlikely to be in the mood even to consider concessions. Actually, both U.S. and South Vietnamese officials were increasingly coming around to the view that Tet, in the long run, had proved to be a disaster to the Communists, costing them 42,000 men, by U.S. estimate, rallying many South Vietnamese to fresh efforts, and resulting in "no enemy flags in our cities," as Constituent Assemblyman...
Militarily, the post-Tet situation looked highly encouraging for the allies last week. South Viet Nam's army was steadily expanding toward a better equipped, better-trained force of 918,000. In the field, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops scored a series of notable victories against Communist units in the outskirts of Saigon and even more decisively in the A Shau Valley (see THE WORLD). While U.S. losses were running at the rate of some 30 dead per day, the Communists were losing about...
...week's news: Colonel Pham Van Thanh, a Viet Cong since 1945, who crossed lines to become the highest ranking defector of the war. Thanh brought with him the warning that the Communists were about to attempt a second round of attacks as a sequel to their countrywide Tet offensive three months...
Allied intelligence doubted that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...Colonel Thanh also confirmed that the Communists had not done so well during Tet as they had hoped, partly through faulty coordination and communications. In fact, discouraged by their failure, his units around Saigon began drifting away from their assigned positions after Tet. As a result, the vaunted second round of attacks, originally scheduled for late February, failed to come off. Nonetheless, the allies still credit the enemy with considerable capacity for causing damage...