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...Salvador, the country's four-year counterinsurgency campaign has mostly been an exercise in frustration. The main reason: the lackluster performance of the 22,000-member Salvadoran army and particularly its officer corps. According to the U.S. military men, almost all of whom have experience in Viet Nam, the way for the Salvadorans to beat the 5,000 to 6,000 Marxist-led guerrillas is to pursue them through the countryside. Says a U.S. counterinsurgency expert: "You have to put troops out and keep the guerrilla from operating. The ultimate goal is to reduce him to banditry...
...principles of Operation Goodwill are based on the "hearts and minds" theory of combined military and economic action that the U.S. first tested in Viet Nam. In addition to a more aggressive role for the Salvadoran army, the campaign depends on the training of regional defense forces to keep the guerrillas from returning after the army moves on to other objectives. At its newly opened regional training center in Puerto Castilla, Honduras, the U.S. will have trained by the end of this year four new Salvadoran provincial military units of 350 men each, called cazador (hunter) battalions, to fill that...
...December of 1967 Lyndon Johnson launched a mad jet dash around the world. Reynolds ended up as the trip's pool reporter in the Vatican when L.B.J. met Pope Paul VI on Christmas Eve for a joint plea for peace in Viet Nam. In the muted elegance of the Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from...
...personal acquaintance of twelve Presidents, Lippmann was the leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism." But he had become disillusioned in his 70s when Lyndon Johnson, with flattery and lies, with private lunches and birthday gifts, had tried to bear-hug Lippmann into supporting the Viet Nam War. "Every time I pull my chair nearer that guy," L.B.J. complained, "he pulls his chair farther away...
Despite the presence of 40,000 Vietnamese troops (and some 5,000 Soviet advisers), Laos has been struggling since 1979 to sustain a socialist course unfettered by Hanoi's doctrinaire style. When the Pathet Lao Communists took over in Vientiane in 1975 after the U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, they quickly forced the resignation of King Savang Vatthana and instituted hard-line Marxist policies that brought the country to the edge of ruin. Private trade was banned, the few existing factories were nationalized, and restrictions on private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went...