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...that the Communists were idle. At South Viet Nam's southern tip, the Viet Cong slashed into the town of Ca Mau, seized the provincial hospital and held it for eleven hours before finally being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion...
This erosion of support may force Johnson to reevaluate the situation in Vietnam instead of capitulating to General Westmoreland's latest troop demands...
...reading the statement, Fulbright underlined the key issue of the hearings--whether further escalations would be allowed. By endorsing it, he set himself and the majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in direct opposition to any further escalation of U.S. troop commitments in Vietnam...
Curdled Opinion. If there is a note of anguish in the pleas of U.S. officers for more men, that is due to the dangerously exposed situation of U.S. troops as a result of Hanoi's new thrust. "I see no easy end to this war," admitted Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler last week after conferring with General William C. Westmoreland on troop requirements. "We must expect hard fighting to continue. The enemy retains substantial uncommitted resources...
...course, Viet Nam. All the signs indicate that Johnson is once more going through the process of preparing the nation for news of a major notch-up in the war. When the announcement will come is uncertain, but it seems likely that Johnson has in mind an increase in troop strength on the order of nearly 200,000 men. That would have far-reaching effects. It would add as much as $10 billion to the $77 billion Defense budget. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills said a "substantial acceleration" of the war "could force" Congress to raise taxes...