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363-06724 to 363-06730
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Title
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Article about the pacification program
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Description
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Original title: "pacify", Keever's title: "'Disasterous Defeat' for Allies Pacification Program Along DMZ by Communist Offensive", Article draft about the pacification program's failure to prevent the Tet Offensive and its massive setback during since the Offensive, 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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To match the buildup of Communist forces along in the
I Corps area, the American command has been and is continuing to
funnel in massive do doses of ground U. S. ground troops and increased
firepower. The five provinces on contain nearly three American
Marine Divisions, three U. S. Army divisions and two Vietnamese divisions,
the American command has announced.
"The war here is now almost entirely relegated to the
profession of arms," one American Invovled the involved in the
pacification program explained. "It's difficult to make the American
officials in Saigon understand this. They are still pushing us to go
TRA
back into the countryside--without understanding the Communist
are
hugging even the printap principal cities."
regiments
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REVEAL of March 1 preliminary assessment in the five
provinces, 114 of the 133 pacification or revolutionary
of
development--teams has been accounted for.
duties,
refugees,
The Of the 114 accounted
for, only 48 per cent were working in the villages assigned to them
for 1968. Roughly 23 per cent were temporarily assigned to other
such as distributing relief supplies and assisting city
and the remaining 27 per cent were working in villager
still working in villages assigned them in the 1967 pacification plan.
The aadre-teams in and program in Thua Thien province,
which suffered from three-weeks of all-out fighting in its chief
city of Hue, seem to be worst affected as of the March 1 assessment;
only 15 per cent of the cadre, averaging 40 men per teem, were accounted
for at the time.
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But
If you take the pacification program only on its
measurable manifestations--number of them teams attacked, number of
villages destroyed--it is not really a complete picture," the source
explained.
"I would say on these two, our teams came out better than we
expected. The damage
is going to be a big problem--the s physical
damage in cities, Pot provincial capitals and villages--but it is not
excessive, except for Hue. The Te problem is going to be in the
villages because the intensity of the war has been alot more disruptive."
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"We have suffered a disasterous defeat,
or whatever
you want to call it," one reliable source reported. "I look at
pacification as much more intangible than the number of teams--
and the number of canals, schools and dispensaries they have constructed.
The buildings are part and parcel of pacification--but the real point
or their
ten the program is what the villagers / feel,
attitude
towards their own government. That's what we're really
And
taking bouten talking about when we discuss pacification.
this is what our military strategy has failed to give us.
of
"There is no change in et strategy--but there may be
"To pacify,
an intensification on the military side," he continued.
the military a machine must give the people security-to live daily
wave of battle over and around
without having to feel the
This is where we've had a tremendous shellacking.
by
them,
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The military strategy is still to do defeat the enemy
the anti-
and keep them away from the South Vietnamese population,"
Communist source explained. "Even along the demilitarized zone,
this
is still the aim of the American and Vietnamese military leaders--to
keep the North Vietnamese Army from invading the South. 1
"Still, there's a vacuum that initially can be filled by
propaganda and psychological warfare--and then has to be build built
up by military and civilian offorts. I wouldn't say the Tet offensive
has struck an irrevocable blow to pacification-but we might as well
face the fact the that, not purely militarily, but in the over-all
sonse,
this is where we took the Allies took it on the e chin. by
BEVEALED
the Communists/incredible cemention coordination to attack as they
did."
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The knotong knowledgeable source said the that the
Allied military effort during the initial phases of the offensive
had fallen back to protecting the cities, which was a detriment to the
defensive of the villages.
DEADE
Whether the Allied forces, despite an increase in numbers
in I Corps, have the sizes strength (to regain the strategic offensive
from the Communists, and to re-assert some degree of security in the
villages outside the major cities in the area, is expected to be
vele pivotal developments questions paralleling
the predicted bible-bloodier battles surfacing on the purely
military side of the Vietnam ledger.
t
(Hank: I think this is one of the most honest
assessments by the one of the most honest, informed sources in the area.
Sorriest I unable to file earlier. The Khe Sanh airstrip
was closed for two days and I unable to get out until Saturday.
Khe Sany sanh is at this time closed to women correspondents
because another woman wounded there and lieuteant she talking with was
gravely hurt. Hence, in the event something big does happen there--which
I doubt I hope John Hughes can plan to come in. I'll be long memo
on this and other developments in several days.
Tomorrow I'll start filing a Khe Sanh series, probably five
or six articles, or 1000 to 1500 words each. This cover color, defenses,
strategy And significance. I think for impact one must wis write the
whole Khe Sanh piece as an insintegrated package,
since so much has
been written about separate facets. If you want, however,
you can run the pieces separately and soissor up the series.
I'm fine and collected only kinned elbow swandiving into
a trench during artillery barrage, Will appreciate any guidance of
what you think we need to cover after Khe Sanh series; otherwise
I'll plan to stay in Saigon for awhile,
I'm also airmailing three or four
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The
knowing knowledgeable source said the that the
Allied military effort during the initial phases of the offensive
had fallen back to protecting the cities, which was a detriment to the
defensive of the villages.
DIENDE
Whether the Allied forces, despite an increase in numbers
in I Corps, have the sieg strength (to regain the strategic offensive
from the Communists, and to re-assert some degree of security in the
villages outside the major cities in the area, is expected to be
le pivotal developments questions paralleling
the predicted bladsbled bloodier battles surfacing on the purely
military side of the Vietnam ledger.
t
(Hank: I think this is one of the most honest
assessments by the one of the most honest, informed sources in the area.
Sorriest I unable to file earlier. The Khe Sanh airstrip
was closed for two days and I unable to get out until Saturday.
Khe Sany Sanh is at this time closed to women correspondents
because another woman wounded there and lieuteant she talking with was
gravely hurt. Hence, in the event something big does happen there--which
I doubt I hope John Hughes can plan to come in. I'll be long memo
on this and other developments in several days.
Tomorrow I'll start filing a Khe Sanh series, probably five
or six articles, or 1000 to 1500 words each. This cover color, defenses,
strategy and
and
Tignificance. I think for impact one must wis write the
whole Khe Sanh piece as an in integrated package,
since so much has
been written about separate facets. If you want, however,
you can run the pieces separately and soissor up the series.
I'm fine and collected only kinned elbow swandiving into
a trench during artillery barrage, Will appreciate any guidance of
after Khe Sanh series; otherwise
what you mad think we need to cover
I'll plan to stay in Saigon for awahile, I'm also airmailing three or four
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Date
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1968, Mar. 11
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Tet Offensive, 1968; War casualties; United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
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Location
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Da Nang, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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16.0545; 108.0717
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B9, F27
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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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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
