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...made much of the fact that his decision had been endorsed by Robert McNamara. He pulled from his pocket a rumpled piece of paper bearing, he said, McNamara's handwritten "alternatives" and "recommendations" and dated Jan. 19-more than a week before the Viet Cong's murderous Tet offensive. Thus did the President bring back the commander of the third greatest overseas force in American history, faint-praising him as "a very talented and very able officer." Westmoreland, it was clear, was no longer an unalloyed political asset...
Until the Tet offensive, Westmoreland's judgment had never been seriously questioned. There was no lack of dissent about the bombing and the basic U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but rarely had a commander in the field been so immune to technical criticism of his own performance. Justly, management-minded Westmoreland was given great credit for the herculean logistical feats of 1965 and 1966. Until last year, anyway, his basic strategy, a compromise between search-and-destroy and a holding operation in the populated areas, seemed to be successful...
...effect, a hard-hitting post-Tet State of the Union message, prom ising many of the sweeping reforms that the U.S. has been urging over the past two months. The program, beamed to 170,000 TV sets within viewing range of 76% of the country's population, would, if carried out, go far toward solv ing the worst of South Viet Narn's problems. Among President Thieu's major concerns...
...REFUGEE RIGHTS. To help ensure that corrupt officials do not dip into the aid for the refugees of the Communists' Tet attacks, Thieu spelled out exactly what each refugee family was entitled to get. In Saigon it was $83, ten large iron sheets and ten bags of cement. In Hue the aid was the same except that, because of the excessive damage, each family should get 20 iron sheets. Elsewhere, each family was due $41.50, ten sheets, ten bags of cement. Thieu reported that the refugee rolls had already been reduced from the initial 700,000 created by Tet...
Liberation Army. The shock waves from Tet continue to affect the Viet namese government in other ways. A new civilian self-defense directorate of the Ministry of the Interior has set up 53 people's-self-defense units in Saigon and 204 smaller ones in 28 of the nation's 44 provincial capitals, involving in all some 19,000 volunteers. The government is also giving all male civil servants and teachers between the ages of 18 and 45 a week or two of mil itary training, including the handling of carbines on rifle ranges...