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...South Vietnamese government should later prove incapable of carrying the fight alone. He has promised to announce a new withdrawal schedule this week, and is expected to increase the pace to at least 15,000 men a month, some 2,500 over the current rate. That would reduce troop strength in Viet Nam to about 50,000 by the middle of next year. Whether that will satisfy the renewed yearning for an end to the war seems increasingly doubtful, given the fresh divisions and the moral torments caused by the Galley verdict...
...Nixon is suffering a public relations loss, he is not nearly in Lyndon Johnson's dilemma of three years ago. Nixon is committed to a policy of quitting the war, and he can increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese...
...Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
Beyond that, one of the stolen documents dealt with a Moscow, Idaho, Boy Scout leader named Thomas Ingerson who had requested visas from the Soviet embassy for his troop to make a Russian tour this summer. Another file contained a directive from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, saying in part: "Increased campus disorders involving black students pose a definite threat to the nation's stability and security and indicate need for increase in both quality and quantity of intelligence information . . . [concerning such] groups which are targets for influence and control by the violence-prone Black Panther party and other...
Rolls of barbed wire are coiled against brick factory walls. Sandbagged troop emplacements disfigure apartment blocks and churches. Soldiers in battle gear walk slowly down streets with loaded submachine guns crooked in their arms, muzzles pointed skyward but fingers on the triggers. Smashed shopwindows are boarded up. Scaffolding surrounds bombed buildings...