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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04955 to 363-04960
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Title
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Article about South Vietnamese-Cambodian diplomacy and North Vietnamese tanks
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Description
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Orignal title: "focus", Keever's title: "U.S. Military Warns Hanoi is Big on Soviet-made Tanks [?] Raid into South Vietnam", Article draft about South Vietnamese-Cambodian diplomacy and North Vietnamese use of Soviet tanks to defend the Ho Chi Minh trail, for the Chirstian Science Monitor, page 1-6
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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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Transcript
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SAIGON, NOVEMBER 18--Although far less dramatic than the Paris snafu,
the South Vietnamese government has suffered aux another recent diplomatic
setback. For the past several months,
behind-the-scenes,
Foreign
Minister Tran Chanh Thanh has been attempting to re-establish diplomatic
relations with South Vietnam's pivotal, but aloof neighbor of Cambodia.
South-Vietnamese-Cambodian diplomatic relations have been severed since
mid-1963-during the Buddhist crisis under Ngo Dinh Diem-but, more
by for.
embarrassing to Saigon, the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front maintains
propaganda and quasi-diplomatic offices in Phnom Phen.
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Saigon wanted to re-establish relations with Cambodia to compete with
the Viet Cong on the political-psychological side, to spy on them--and
also to pave the way for developing contacts in case either Saigon or the
Viet Cong or both-should desire secret, behind-the-scenes
conversations in the future on an internal South Vietnamese political
Sie. I Botip/
theough Colding
sealy Saigon goverment
arrangement.
also hoped to convince influential contacts there to persuade General
De Gaulle to escalate the status of the Saigon diplomatic mission in Paris
from that of consulate general to the of full embassy. But, last week,
And,
the word from Prince Sihanouk was--no.
there is yet no repeat
Jeance,
no word from , on upping the South Vietnamese mission in Paris to
that of embassy.
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there have been
Second item begins: For several months,
reports that the North Vietnamese Army was using Soviet-made tanks to
defend and keep open th its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route in southern
Laos. But, last week, General Creighton Abrams-American commander
here who was a World War II armor hero-was reportedly warned by senior
field officers not repeat not to be surprised if those North Vietnamese tanks
made a mad-dash raid into South Vietnam.
The high-impact raid would be conducted for political-psychological
purposes to escalate Hanoi's bargaining position in Paris,
these
since the Lao-South Vietnamese border area is
officers reasons,
hardly "tank-country"
suited for sustained military operations.
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One vulnerable suspected tank targets is the Special Forces
camp of Duc Co, situated near the abandoned western end of Route 19, which
mm is the middle of three major horizontal highways running from the
South China Sea taman ku
highlands to the Laos-Cambodian borders.
im through the rugged central
Duc Co is situated at the Laotian
end of Route 19, much like the Lang Vei Special Force camps war at
ie Sani was at the best Laotian end of Route 9.
emee
Lang Vei--near the one U. S. Marine besieged combat base of Khe Sanh--
was overrun in February this year when the North Vietnamese first introduced
armor into the war in the South. But, the Soviet-made tanks now in Laos
are reportedly larger than the 15 PT-76's that overran Lang Vei.
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third tem begins: If peace comes-or the current military
South Vietnam's battered and badgered National
de-escalation continues,
Ra ilroad will be given a major rehabilitation to carry freight and
passengers the 1,109 kilometers (665 miles) from Saigon to the 19th
small stations near the 17th paralle.
The American government has
commited 17.3 repeat 17.3 million dollars thought 1970 to help in footing
the bill; the South Vietnamese government is paying 970 million pa
piastres or 8.5 repeat 8.5 million dollars.
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Work already is in progress.
This month, Vietnamese railreaders
expect to drive their last spk spike in a 48-mile-long segment. By
February 1, U. S. Navy Seabees, working north from Danang and South
from Hue, hope to close the 60-mile gap through the "Pass of the Clouds"
connecting those two northern cities.
The National Railroad--once one of the finest in Southeast Asia
rum and running from Saigon to the China border during French times,
has suffered through three wars and a severe flood in 1965. The railroad
Was diff damaged by Allied bombing of Japanese-held areas in World War
II and was even more heavily damaged during the French Indo-China War.
By 1959, the South Vietnamese government had rebuilt the whole
line and had it functioning. The next year, however, Viet Cong
guerrilla harrassment began in 1960- at a rate of 100 sabotage
incidents a month-and it has never been the same since.
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Date
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1968, Nov. 18
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Subject
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Cambodia--Relations--Vietnam (Republic); Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Ho Chi Minh Trail; Tank warfare; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Soviet Union
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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, F39
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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
