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363-04561 to 363-04565
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Title
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Article about a potential Communist reloctation
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Description
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Original title: "mainforce", Keever's title: "North Vietnamese [?] Reportedly Withdraw to Stach-[?]." Article about Communist troop movements and potential withdrawl of a large portion of main forces. Written for the Christian Science Monitor
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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SAIGON, JULY 27-It is now being openly discussed in informed circles
heres The Communists have withdrawn "a large proportion" of their
main-force unite from South Vietnam,
some informs
mostly
spurges estimate that the Communist big-unit
formations that have withdrawn across South Vietnam's borders "might
well be more than fifty per cent." They estimate that elements of
seven Communist divisions have withdrawn into Cambodia, Laos and North
Vietnam. In the past, at least two Commist twelve Communist divisions
were confirmed as present in the South.
Earlier this month, informed sources estimated that between
25 twenty five to thirty three per cent of the Communist main force units-
#had withdrawn into traditional sanctuaries outside of the South.
Because of the difficulties of intelligence gathering and
interpretation horo, these statistical estimates are generally
considered as "order of magnitude"
rather than specific factual data.
Gul guidelines or "ballpark figures"
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mainforce 2 (normass/doope)
in the
This de facto Communist de-escalation of the war-reflected
"subdued" level of fighting and the reduced casualties on all
sides has increased speculation, if not apprehension, in Vietnamese
government circles that the American policy-makers might make a major
and dramatic move at the Paris peace talks, possibly to include
a cessation of the bombing over North Vietnam, This would,, according to
the line of reasoning, accelerate the momentum of the Paris peace talks,
possibly designed to coincide with American Presidential convention or
election timetables.
Other informed sources, however, do not repeat not believe either
the Americans or North Vietnamese in Paris are committed to droitatte
Levente docielona a fixed timetable for making crucial decisions.
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mainforce 3 (normass/deepe)
From the military point of view, the withdrawal of the Communist
units, mostly North Vietnamese Army units, "is not without procedent,"
as one informed
source explained. "Last fall, the Communists did the same
thing, sonding their units back and forth across the borders....He's
made surges and the Tuile before and thon lulls, while sonding down
more mon for another,
HAD
commenders here predicts thor ajoi schistorical,
dorffor jochistorie
.
Perican militery,
But, from the political point of view, the de-escalation comes
at a crucially sensitive moment, whon American noog negotiators in
Paris have been demanding some sort of unspecified undefined Communist
reciprocity before meeting the North Vietnamese condition of ceasing
all bombing "and other acts of war" against the North.
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mainforce 4 (normans/deope)
Of the seven Communist divisions that have at least partially
the exit from the
wt withdrawn across the South Vietnamese borders,
pronounced.
five northernmost provinces, called I Corps, seems to be particularly
It is reported that two of the five North Vietnamese
divisions ordinarily operating south of the demilitarized zone have
slipped back across the line into North Vietnam or westwards into Leos.
These are the 320th and 304th Divisions, oloments of which formerly
A third
olung to the American Marines operating around Khe Sanh,
division, the 3250 Division, loft the Khe Sanh area last spring and moved
nouthwards into the Kontum-Dak To perinoters. It is now believed to have
Zabaltham swerved westward to rest and regroup in a traditional
sanctuary in Cambodia. Some sources believe it is moving southwards
by towards the Saigon area on the Cambodian side of the border.
A fourth division, the 1st North Vietnamese Army Division, has
also exited South Vietnam and movod outland across the border into
moved in 59s a west-cast
a Cambodian sanctuary. This division formerly
axis
10 along the Pleiku Kontum-Binh Dinh axis in the northern two-thirds
of South Vietnam, zha
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ma inforce 5 (normass/deepe)
In the outer peripheries of the Saigon Saigon area, the Communist
order of battle is more confused. In the past three Communist divisions
have operated in a wide radius from Saigon--the 5th, 7th and 9th Divisions.
These are called Viet Cong Divisions and wore exclusively Southern
in character several years ago. But with the high oecualties suffered
by those "homogrown" rearuits, es distinct from the North Vietnamese,,
more and more Northerners have been brought in as replacements, not
only for rank-and-file troops, but also for com unit commanders and
political officers. These "mixed" divisions around Saigon "have now
disappeared on the Allies," as one informed source explained.
Some believe elements of these three divisions have moved across
the border into another Cambodian sanctuary, or they may have fragmented
into smaller units to hide out in isolated areas of the South,
(Hanks I consider this an update of my doescalation article of
July 16, so with more specific details in it. I think this is the
most important development in Vietnam at this time--everytining also revolving
around this so it may be worth the space. Also, there was a
an accidential fire in the JUSPAO office we whore we get out mail; if you've
sent me any important messages via mail during the past wock, I probably
won't receive them. Regards Bov).
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Date
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1968, Jul. 27
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Subject
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Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Strategy
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F38
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
