Article about heavy weapons being brought into South Vietnam by Communists

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Article about heavy weapons being brought into South Vietnam by Communists
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Keever's title: "Communists moving in 'bigger and heavier weapons' during bombing pause, says U.S. Air Force General", article about heavy weapons being brought into South Vietnam by Communists, for the New York Herald Tribune
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(Morga n Gandy)
Saigon 29230 (UPIS)
Communists:
appear to be brinin
bringing heavier weapons into south Vietnam and preparing for a
much harder fight, said the senior unistates airforce commander
here today.
"There's norptno reduction of enemy efforts im South
Vietnam either on the ground on against our planes,"
stressed Major General Dit Gilbert LLL Meyers; somunga
His comments came in the wake of eye furor in both
Saigon and Washington over opna aye
enemy forcow forces were "scaling down!
news dispatch that the
their activities."
against American, allied and Vietnamese government units.
(More Malloy--BD)
SAYING
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x x x vietnamese government units. X X X
An American Mission spokesman here today flat flatly
rejected the news report.
Ranking American officers in the Saigom
HAVE BEEN LED.
command were known to awaken in the wee morning hours by
an urgent telephone calls from quote rattled unquote
Pentagon brass.
"There are indications the Communists are coming in with
un bigger and heavier weapons--and they'll fight harder and
harder,"
emphasized General Meyers,
of the
de the acting commander
Unistates Air Force Second Air Division.
Aye major share of intelligence gathering on enemy movements
The UNiSTATES
is borne by Amertean airforce which employs visual, photop
AY
photographic and electronic reconnaissance on around-the-
clock basis.
(More)
(More Malloy BD)
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second add--morgan gandy--saigon XM clock basis x x x.
Speaking at his Saigon airport headquarters,
the twostar
general went ons "We have norptnot indications that enemy
troops are moving back into North Vietnam or
out of the country into Laos or Cambodia. We think there
RATE OF
is an increase in the infiltration of new troops coming into
South Viet Nam, but it will take us some time to confirm this
positively."
Reliable military sources estimate as many as three.
HAVE
infiltrated into South Vietnam
new North Vietnamese regiments
since the bombing pause started on Christmas Eve.
These are
in addition to seven confirmed North Vietnamese regiments and
which have beem
two probables
operating within the South for some months.
More North Vietnamese Army antiaircraft units--using the standard.
Ве
.50 repeat fifty calibre machine guns--are known to flowing into
South Vietnam, the general said.
(More Malloy BD)
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third add-morgan gandy-saigon
Xthe general said x x x.
Yet, curiously, despite the Communist buildup there has been
little se significant contact with the People's Army of North
Vietnam (PAVN) units since the November clash with the Unistates
First Cavalry Divison near the Cambodian border.
General Meyers' explanation:
bloody nose that time
us head-on again."
"They got such a bloodmade
they're notrptnot interested in hitting
The general added, "There is a possible change of
BECOMING
Communist tactics. It'
harder to find them
For the people on the grob because the Air Force keeps them
dispersed into smaller g
groups.
"They're moving about quite aye bit within the country whil
so we think they are
preparing for an offensive.
pessimistic in this business."
We have to be
(Endi t-Malloy-BD)
Date
1966, Jan. 29
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Weapons; United States. Air Force; Bombardment; Military reconnaissance
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B188, F3
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English