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...February. Quite aside from his thrusting ambition for the White House and his longstanding aversion to Johnson, Kennedy was increasingly despairing of the Administration's Viet Nam policy. And he feared that a "catastrophic ending," as he put it last week, was to come. After the Communists' Tet offensive, he believed a major U.S. military step-up to be inevitable. "How can I stay out," he asked a friend, "knowing what they are planning to do? I've got to do something." On domestic issues Kennedy grew ever more convinced that Johnson was failing the country...
...first time since Tet, the allies last week swept out on the offensive, launching their largest operation of the war. Code-named "Resolved to Victory," the drive aimed at breaking the ring of three enemy divisions menacing Saigon. It employed more than 50 battalions formed from the U.S. 1st, 9th and 25th Divisions and the South Vietnamese 5th and 25th Divi sions, plus task forces of Vietnamese marines and paratroopers. The nearly 50,000 troops fanned out through a five-province belt around the capital...
...corrupt official in a district or province can undo all the South Vietnamese government's efforts to create an image of responsible government genuinely interested in the welfare of its people. That image has never been more vital than in the days since the Communists' destructive Tet offensive. Last week, responding to strong urgings from the U.S. and from within its own ranks, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu finally showed some signs of doing something about its endemic, pervasive wrongdoers. It replaced six of South Viet Nam's 44 province chiefs on grounds of corruption...
When all the parts are added up, the dimensions of South Viet Nam's losses since Tet become clear: 14,300 civilians dead, 24,000 wounded, 72,000 houses destroyed, 627,000 new refugees. Of the 35 cities hit, ten suffered major damage: Kontum, Pleiku, Ban Me Thuot, My Tho, Ben Tre, Vinh Long, Chau Doc, Can Tho, Saigon and Hue. CORDS officials estimate that 13 of the country's 44 provinces were so badly hit that pacification has been set back to where it stood at the beginning of 1967. In an additional 16 provinces, it will...
...group in Viet Nam is more disturbed or disgruntled by the dangers of the "new" war than the U.S. television journalists who are covering it. Since the Tet offensive began, 14 correspondents and crewmen from the U.S. networks have been injured. Last week two ABC men, Bill Brannigan and Jim Deckard, were injured in the bombardment of Khe Sanh.* As a result, many members of TV's standard three-man teams (correspondent, cameraman and sound man) have begged off from hazardous assignments, and the networks are having trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff...