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363-01325 to 363-01329
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Title
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Article on Communist withdrawl from South Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "mainforce." Article by Keever on the withdrawal of the main Communist force from South Vietnam
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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
here: The Communists have withdrawn "a large proportion" of their
main-force units from South Vietnam.
Some
So mostly North Vietnamese
informed sources
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formations that have withdrawn across South Vietnam's borders "might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seven Communist divisions have withdrawn into Cambodia, Laos and North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 from ist twelve Communist divisions
were confirmed
present in the South.
Earlier this month, informed sources estimated that between
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had withdrawn into traditional sanctuaries outside of the South.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 here, these statistical estimates are generally
considered as "order of magnitude"
rather than specific factual data.
guidelines or "ballpark figures"
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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 dramatter
ins a fixed timetable for making crucial decisions.
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From the military point of view, the withdrawal of the Communist
units, mostly North Vietnamese Army units, "is not without precedent,"
as one informed
source explained. "Last fall, the Communists did the same
thing, sending their units back and forth across the borders....He's
made surges and theor
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before and then lulls, while sending down
more non for another, our other this chistorical basify.
Commanders here predict major
weeks.
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But, from the political point of view, the de-escalation comes
at a crucially sensitive moment, when American neeg 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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Of the seven Communist divisions that have at least partially
pronounced..
w withdrawn across the South Vietnamese borders, the exit from the
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 Laos.
These are the 320th and 304th Divisions, elements of which formerly
A third
elung to the American Marines operating around Khe Sanh.
division, the 3250 Division, left the Khe Sanh area last spring and moved
southwards into the Kontum-Dak To perimeters. It is now believed to have
teknikalamsham swerved westward to rest and regroup in a traditionel
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 moved som across the border into
moved in as a west-east
a Cambodian sanctuary. This division formerly
axis
along the Pleiku/ Kontum-Binh Dinh axis in the northern two-thirds
of South Vietnam, xxstoriamsonment to reminder watsamma
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In the outer peripheries of the Safgoh 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 were exclusively Southern
in character several years ago. But with the high casualties suffered
by these "homegrown" recruits, as 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 con 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..
(Hank: I consider this an update of my deescalation article of
BUT
I think this is the
July 16, also with more specific details in it.
most important development in Vietnam at this timer-everything else revolving
so it may be worth the space. Also,
there was &
an accidential fire in the JUSPAO office we where we get out mail;
if you've
sent me any important messages via mail during the past week, I probably
won't receive them. Regards Bev).
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Date
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1968, July 27
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Soldiers; Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6297
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B6, F10
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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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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections
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Language
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English
