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President Nixon trumpeted the details of his fall peace offensive last week after a long prelude of press leaks. The program - draft suspension and troop withdrawal - aims transparently at lulling domestic dissent rather than stopping the shooting in Vietnam...
...withdrawal of 35,000 more troops will not affect the fighting power of allied troops any more than the draft cut-back. The 60,000 soldiers who will have left Vietnam by December represent only 12 per cent of the present American troop strength. The units withdrawn will surrender quieter allied districts to experienced South Vietnamese units...
...precisely that sort of Communist overconfidence that worried Richard Nixon. For the U.S. to continue troop withdrawals, the President has stated, there must be progress in at least one of three areas: 1) meaningful negotiations in Paris; 2) South Viet
...success in assuming a larger combat role; and 3) a decrease in the level of combat. Understandably, Nixon feared that another troop pull-out in the face of the recent renewed violence would be interpreted by Hanoi as a sign of U.S. weakness...
Nixon is expected to announce another troop withdrawal later this month. Though the White House bristles at any suggestion that the timing was more than coincidence, the Administration is obviously not sorry that it occurs when Congress convenes and the nation's colleges reopen. Nixon's main domestic pressure is to reduce the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam to a minimum. As last week's debate indicates, his freedom of action is somewhat circumscribed by the Communists, who have shown no willingness to accommodate him. If they continue to gun down his strategy of a phased, orderly...