Article about anti-Communist war effort in South Vietnam, page 3

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Digital Object Identifier
363-08119
Title
Article about anti-Communist war effort in South Vietnam, page 3
Description
Original title: "War", Article draft about anti-Communist war effort in South Vietnam, for the London Daily Express, page 3
Date
1964, Jun. 10
Subject
Vietnam, 1961-1975;
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B2, F5
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English
extracted text
Beverly Deepe

“We're losing strategically in Southeast Asia," the gloomy

@ipluat grosned, "snd welze losing tactically in South Viet Men."

During: the current rped rainy season, which continues until
October, high-ranking Vietnamese officers (informatively only—prime minister
General Nguyen Khanh) conceded the pro-Compunist guerrillas have the capability—
and the intentions—of overriding wnveubinee Ef the 43 provincial capitals
in the country. And they have the capability of regimental—controlled
operations, a definite increase in the scope of the war,x in which their
previous largest operating unit was a battalion,

Reliable sources indicate that the pro-Communist guerrillas
are now moving battalions from the lower Mekong Dleta Delite—which they now believe
they dominate—to sevem crucial provinces’ forming an are south of Saigon. (See
enclosed map.)

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