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...uppermost levels of the Administration and the Pentagon, where optimism has been endemic from the war's earliest days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...
...million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they had been spread entirely too thin over too many crisis areas to be effective. While the U.S. and its allies officially reported 40,000 enemy soldiers killed since the Tet offensive began at the beginning of the lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses to be closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks...
...countryside, the Communists are busily reaping the harvest so painfully wrested from them over the past two years in allied operations: propagandizing the peasants, collecting rice and taxes and, above all, recruiting fresh soldiers for their depleted ranks-even impressing into their ranks some ARVN soldiers caught home on Tet leaves. About half of the South Vietnamese army was on leave when the Communists first struck nearly four weeks ago, and many ARVN soldiers have not yet returned to their units. The government's hope is that many of the missing offered their services to the nearest headquarters when...
That story, typical of the bittersweet confections so beloved by the Vietnamese, was being told all over Saigon last week. It dramatizes the feeling of fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect...
...fact is clear as a result of the challenge posed by the Tet offensive," General Westmoreland told the Associated Press Sunday: "The time has come for debating to end, for everyone to close ranks, roll up their (sic) sleeves and get on with the job." The General's decision to revive the venerable, but by no means honorable, American tradition of the Bloody shirt is sensationally illtimed...