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...along Johnson has promised General William Westmoreland that whatever manpower reinforcements the general needed in the field, he would get. So far, the promise has been fulfilled: some 200,000 men will have disembarked in South Viet Nam in 1966 alone, bringing the year-end total of American troop strength in the field...
...beyond that point, divergence looms between the generals, on the one hand, and Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on the other. Last week McNamara disclosed a planned "slowdown in our rate of troop deployments" in Viet Nam, "a statement," explained the Defense Department the day after Election Day, "that does not necessarily rule out a figure as high as 500,000 for the end of 1967." To the men running the war in Saigon and many of their colleagues in the Pentagon, half a million men falls considerably short of what is needed. Marine Commandant Wallace Greene...
...Cath olic priest for ten years, volunteered for duty as an Army chaplain and was shipped out last January to South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon of B Company. Just then, a Viet...
Referring to the 200,000-man troop build up in 1966, McNamara said the increase next year will be "nothing of that order...
...Lyndon Johnson, too, who was personally responsible for the most controversial item in the communique-Point 29-pledging an allied troop withdrawal six months after "the other side" withdrew its forces, infiltration was ended and the level of violence had subsided. The point was designed to allay fears in other capitals that the U.S. has no intention of pulling out of Southeast Asia. Even more, it was designed to answer those statesmen-most notably France's Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal...