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363-04830.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04830
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Title
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Report in Saigon: More Marines Due
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the increased number of Marines being sent to South Vietnam, pages 1 and 11
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Date
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1965, Mar. 10
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns, American; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Naval operations, American; United States. Marine Corps--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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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
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extracted text
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Report in Slt1gon:
}lore Mari.11es Dite
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Corresvondent
SAIGON.
• Up to 10,000 more American
Marines are expected to be
;ent to South Viet Nam soon,
:eliable sources here • said
resterday, ·
The augmented force's role
l.'ould be the defense of major
nilitary ·installations and pertaps important · cities, but the
'1arines' duties would place
hem under combat conditions,
he sources noted,
A 3,500-man Marine coningent already has 'been aslgned to Viet Nam for this
Wednesday, Mareh 10; 1965
71,.. £ ~
function, With more than half
the force deployed around the
bi_g U, S. air base at Da Nang.
In Washington, official.s
denied last night that the
United States at present
intrnds • to send additional
large numbers of ground
troops to South Viet Nam, A
qualified source said the idea
was not even being discussed because there has
been no request to this effect
from the South Vietnamese
government.
The sources in Saigon also
indicated that more ground
forces are expected In the
1vlore on MARINES-P 11
New York
l£craltr attibuttc
'REPORT MORE MARINES FOR VIET
(Continued from page one)
tary experts believe units responsible for the security of
installations must operat~ at
least beyond the range of
mortars and 75-mm. recoilless
rifle fire-more than two
miles-which Viet Cong units
are capable of lobbing onto,
air bases .
coming months from other
,Free World nations, particularly from Asia but also possibly
toke1~ foraes from
South America and Europe.
TALKS
I• a related development,
the wrrtmand responsibility
for prosecution of the anti«;:ommunist war would be
~ifted from total Vietnamese
, control to that of a combined
,command including a number
of Allied nations, the sources
said.
They indicated that the
multi-national command, in
which American offirlers would
play a major if not a, leading
role, would vaguely resemble
the United Nations Command
that operated during the
Korean War-but without the
UN, The sources said the combined command, still in formulative planning stages,
would be established a.t least
by June, if not sooner.
It was understood in Washington that the Saigon · joint
command proposals, coming
mostly from the Vietnamese
side, have been discussed for
at least a year. American officials said formal implementation of the idea would be
difficult and they were aware
of no progress toward an
agreement on the subject,
The sources said the plan
for more American ground
security forces has been under consideration for a long
time. But two current fll,ctors
have necessitated its implementation:
First, in the view of American political analysts here,
Communist North Viet Nam
is not now considering negotiations that would be acceptable to Saigon and Washington and prob:1.bly will not
do so 1n the future.
Second, the military situation in the northern provinces of South Viet Nam has
deteriorated sharply since the
Feb, 7 bombing of North Viet
Nam by American jet planes.
A growing number of units
of North Vietnamese-born
personnel have infiltrated
from North Viet Nam in past
months and drastically increased the military pressme
in pr Jv'inces bordering southern Laos, where U. S. jet
fighters also have been conducting air strikes.
LANDING
a later date. Nationalist China
"Token" or "symbolic" mil- as road and dJSpensary buildis known to be willing to send itary forces from some Euro- ing, but, like the' u. s. Maground units, but is cm'rently pean and South American rines, they are prepared to
The U S. Marines arriving awaiting an Invitation . from countries also is
current fight, if attacked.
in the future, it was said, the South Vletn.amese govern- consideration, according to the
Yesterday, a squadron of
probably will have the respon- ment.- These forces probably sources.
U. S. Marine helicoptersIt is also considered pos- generally 24 aircraft-began
sibility of securing such major would be used for building
installations as the jet-length roads or Jroviding logistical sible that Thailand may send arriving to serve as the air
runways at Bien Hoa, only 20 support. but they would op- military units to South Viet arm of the Marine Brigade.
miles from Saigon, where four erate in Communist-infested Nam or southern Laos.
Official American sources
Six hundred South Korean
Americans were killed and six areas.
The Japanese constitution ground troops-the first con- refused to say at what disU. S. jet bombers destroyed in
a Communist Viet Cong mor- prohibits the sending of mili- tingent of an expected 2,000- tance the Marine ground units
tary forces , but Japan prob- man force-already have ar- and the incoming helicopter
tar attack last Nov. 1.
would
operate
The sources said the Philip- ably will increase civilian rived in South Viet Nam. The squadron
pines may send as many as technical
assistance,
the South Koreans are engaged arou.n d the Da Nang airbase
4,000 soldiers to Viet Nam at sources said.
in non-combat activities such for security. However, mili-
CHINA
a
SAIGON (UPIJ .
The last of the 3,500 U, S .
Marines sent into South Viet
Nam were landing yesterday
at Da Nang, on the South
China Sea coast 350 miles
northeast of he1:e.
Army Gen. William C. West 1
moreland , commander of U.
forces in Viet Nam flew to 1
Nang to confer with Ba
Gen. Frederick J. Karch i
Is commanding the Mi/')
force.
One Marine . officer sf
as an adviser with .,
Vietnamese forces wa,jl
and another woundecVday in a Viet Cong.•
285 miles northeast o
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