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...match the U.S. buildup through proportionate infiltration into the South, and that President Johnson has concluded that total military victory in Viet Nam is not possible at an acceptable cost in men or years. The result is a fundamental decision, reached in the past several weeks during a post-Tet "A to Z" reappraisal of the war by the Administration, to get the South Vietnamese ready to fend for themselves, as they would have had to do sooner or later. The decision was made possible by the improving ARVN itself, and by President Nguyen Van Thieu's recent general...
...chief reason for limiting the bombing this time was a strong hunch that Hanoi might finally cooperate. The Communists' Tet offensive, despite its savagery and shock effects, cost the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong heavily. Recently, a 9th Infantry Division brigade captured a revealing critique of the Tet fighting. Issued by Hanoi's Central Office for South Viet Nam, it said: "We failed to seize a number of primary objectives and to destroy mobile and defense units of the enemy. We also failed to motivate the people to stage uprisings. The enemy still resisted and his units...
...Decision. The carnage of Tet demonstrated to each side its own weaknesses and its adversary's strengths. With the U.S. public becoming ever more weary of war, Johnson began to talk in private of "forcing the pace" toward the settlement that has frustratingly eluded him. As his decision not to seek re-election hardened, so did his determination to make one more peace effort and to make it soon. It was, said a White House aide, Johnson's "gut decision," and it was his alone...
Elsewhere, the Communists pose a constant threat. The allied military presence has never been strong, for example, in the southernmost IV Corps, which comprises the rice-rich Delta; now it is weaker than ever. The ARVN and Popular Forces fled from the countryside at the onset of Tet, and have been slow to return. The U.S. has only two brigades of the Ninth Infantry in the Delta. Their energies have been fully taxed by the patrols required to keep open Route Four, over which food supplies flow to Saigon...
...Communists executed hundreds of civilians during their Tet offensive, but the slaughter was particularly marked in and around Hue, where estimates of those put to death range from 200 to 400. British Journalist Stewart Harris, who opposes U.S. policy in Viet Nam and declares . that "my instinct is not to sustain it by writing propaganda," recently visited Hue and vicinity to investigate the executions. Last week he reported his findings in the Times of London...