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363-04265 to 363-04270.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04265 to 363-04270
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Title
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Article about North Vietnam moving troops into South Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "bomb", Keever's title: "Trucks Carry North Vietnamese Troops into the South." Article draft about the US suspending its bombing campaign in the North as more Communist troops move in using trucks. 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, MAY 8-Intelligence sources here report Washington
policymakers are preparing to stop American bombing raids over North
Vietnam in the very near future.
The move, if offooted, would come at a time when the visible
flow of men and supplies se southwards from North Vietnam has reached
high proportions.
"We've caught a
H
oner North Vietnamese prisoner who said
to travel by truck from the Hanoi-Haiphong
it took only eleven days
area into the south south," the sources report. "In the Ashau Valley,
we've caught a prisoner who had boon in the South only four
days.
These guys got on a vehicle--and their next bus stop is lic the South."
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RAS
American military officers here, confused and irked, by what
of bombing operations
they term the "get "upcoming standdown"
over North Vietnam are adjusting their tactical operations to meet the
said.
These
but also
forthcoming Washington policy change, these sources
tactical operations include not only the aerial bombing raids,
the ab clandestine ground operations into the North, which he
have continued on a restricted basis south of the 20th parallel
since President Lyndon Johnson's April 1st speech announcing the
bombing reduction. The U. S. Navy Sp ship-to-shore bombardment
of the North would
veese presumably also be ceased.
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In the past,
some of the clan e clandestino oporations, not only
from South Vietmon, but so from on neighboring countries, have acted
as ground spotters for pinpoint American bombing raids, along with other
more sophisticated quasi-political activities, reliable sources report.
Whether southward-bound traffic from North Vietnam has actually
reached unpreci unprecedented proportions, or whether it has simply
become more visible to American reconnaissance planes flying north of the
20th parallel, which has not bee subj been subject to American bombing
raids since April 1, is matter of high-lovol discussion by i thin
the American military command, reliable sources report. Informed sources
report the American command h believes that the infiltration into South
Vietnam above the 6000-men average late last year, but they note that in
January before the Tet offonsive, the Communists moved moved two divisions
Froughly 20,000 mon
into the South around Khe Sanh.
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The American command has yet to roloase a recent post-Tot
estimate of North Vietnamese infiltration into South Vietnam,
although it is eoh known to be under serious at the Saigon
headquarters.
American military officers, as well as Western diplomats,
are mystified as to why the American government would unilement
Stop
se, the bombing--rather than teck seeking to
negotiate the red reduction in exchange for some reprocity from the
North Vietnamese at the Paris peace talks.
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The move,
if effected, would not soon in contradiction to the
announced Pentagon policy of preparing to reduce American troops from
South Vietnam "in duo timo."
"I don't understand it," one Western diplomat explained. "I'd
have thought the Americans would have negotiated to the reduction of
their troops rather than simply unilaterally announcing this policy.
After all, the Americans have only two alll-American bargaining points-
the
U. S. bombing raids over the North and the American military
prosonce in the South. Why the Americans are giving up those bargaining
points without negotiating something in exchange from Hanoi is beyond me."
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Some Western diplomats hore believe that in the coming months,
if the American bombing raids coase over the North, North Vietnam
will "secretly enact a de facto reduction" of activities in the South.
Other diplomats, on the more skeptical side of the political peetu
spectrum, believe that any North Vietnamese Fected reduction "won't
amount to a row of peanuts while they may momentarily disengage from
some areas, they'll keep their for organized units in the South or near
the borders, while they press the die Viet Cong to attack more."
(Hanks Sorriest my political piece will take more time than I thought.
I'll again try to get it to you tomorrow. This piece comes from a ree
very good source and I think e other journalists will come out with it
toog
Maybe Washington would like to check out why the Americans
are announcing troop phase-outs before negotiations as well as this piece.
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Date
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1968, May 8
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam (Democratic Republic). Quân đội; United States. Air Force; United States. Navy; Bombing, Aerial; Bombardment; Logistics; Transportation, Military
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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, 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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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
