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...there was more preparation for heavy fighting than major action. Most battle contacts were limited to skirmishes scattered throughout the countryside, but few allied military men expected the comparative lull to last. One reason was a man who figured prominently in the week's news: Colonel Pham Van Thanh, a Viet Cong since 1945, who crossed lines to become the highest ranking defector of the war. Thanh brought with him the warning that the Communists were about to attempt a second round of attacks as a sequel to their countrywide Tet offensive three months...
...Colonel Thanh also confirmed that the Communists had not done so well during Tet as they had hoped, partly through faulty coordination and communications. In fact, discouraged by their failure, his units around Saigon began drifting away from their assigned positions after Tet. As a result, the vaunted second round of attacks, originally scheduled for late February, failed to come off. Nonetheless, the allies still credit the enemy with considerable capacity for causing damage...
...ground that Washington should retain some flexibility; thus many listeners inferred that the bombing would continue only in the area immediately north of the Demilitarized Zone. The day after the speech, U.S. bombers ranged more than 200 miles into North Viet Nam to raid a radar site in the Thanh Hoa area, just below the 20th. The first high praise of Johnson's initiative turned suddenly in some quarters to sour disillusion. Said an Administration official: "We had a public relations catastrophe on our hands...
...fourth man who has been arrested, Au Truong Thanh, a former finance minister in the government of Premiere Diem, a former finance minister again in the civilian government of Dr. Quaht, probably the single most respected non-government civilian leader in the country, a man who was barred from running for the presidency probably because of the fear that he would have been elected...
According to the evidence available, in fact, his total command of the current Communist offensive in South Viet Nam was accorded him quite by accident. One of his Politburo archfoes, Nguyen Chi Thanh, who had shared control of operations in the South, died last summer-of what Hanoi describes as a heart attack but U.S. officers refer to as "B-52-itis" caught in the South. Thanh's death left Giap unchallenged, and he has spent a large part of the past six months planning the New Year's offensive that began last week...