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...your sterling performance in writing and reporting. For the first time, the other side of the Tet offensive has been released to the much-propagandized public. For the first time, you haven't nailed the armed forces or the Administration to the wall over our policy in Viet Nam. Keep it up and tell it like...
...Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker read the ledger, the U.S. position looks encouraging-and the Pentagon insists that the readings do not represent the sort of optimism that flowed all too easily before the shock of Tet. As the military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with...
...political image among the peasantry. Until recently, Abrams had made little dent at all in opening up the military establishment, but just last week he won a promise from the government to promote between 4,000 and 6,000 from the ranks, based on individual performances during the Tet fighting. If Saigon does so, that will be a major breakthrough...
...defending while in the field. The offenses range from chicken thievery to rape to the indiscriminate use of artillery. Corruption has long been a way of life, with tribute exacted all along the chain of command until the squeeze reaches the peasant at the bottom. Again, only since Tet can Abrams count much progress: 18 province chiefs and two corps commanders have been fired, several dozen officers arrested and tried for corruption...
...industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares to 905.69, highest since Jan. 9, wiping out nearly all the losses that followed the Viet Cong Tet offensive and the great gold rush...