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363-08275 to 363-08285
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Title
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Article about large scale confrontation with North Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: "military", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about large scale confrontation with North Vietnam, for the Economist
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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,
NOVEMBER 13--Probeedham. The beginning of the end of the
American-North Vietnamese big-unit confrontations in the northern half
of South Vietnam was slowly, half-perceptibly unraveled here with the
Signifort fal
stage shift of the elite U. S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division. The
American command announced this week that the first elements of the
aimmobile divisions being moved to the Cambodian border area northwest
of Saigon from i the suburbs of Hue, where it had been the "swing force"
reserve for the defense of the old imperial capital, for the demilitarized
Zone nd and for the interdiction of the Communist legiste logistical
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road network leading from Laos Ergo the Ashau Valley towards Hue and Danang.
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Officially, General Creighton Abrams made plans for moving the
First Cavalry before the October 16th peace breath break through in Pario
and officially, he made the move because of the growing threat along the
Ca-mb Cambodian border son-curou soni-oirouler are flanking Saigon
to the northwest.
here the Communists have reportedly added another
division the 1st North Vietnamese Army Division, which until a month
ago hibernated along the first and second cop corps border-to
reinforce the 5th, 7th and 9th Communist divisions, which criss-CIOUS
into Cambodia, using it as a sancutary when American B-52 raids
prevent safe group regroupment in War Zone C, Tayninh, Phuoc Long mid
Heu Winle provinces.
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Then, on November 11-Armistice Day-the American command terminated
the 14-month-long operation Wheeler-Wallowa and the seven-month-long
Operation Burlington Trail, in which damm two American
brigades claimed killing 12,000 Communists west-northwest of Par ty
only 16 and five miles respectively west-northwest of Tam Ky.
brigades are scheduled for ropositioning the manned
classified.
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Abrams, the up-shot of these moves
These two
actions by General
Despite the military veneer of these at astrou
appear to be the first adjustment
of the battlefield to the politoa general political agreement between
Hanoi and Washington for tit-for-tat tagit military de-escalation and
disengagement.
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Vietmece of leers in a position to know report that Conoral
Abrams his advisod--and the Vietnamese Joint General Staff has agreed-
that in the two norther corps areas of the South-coloring the northern
half of the country-
Allied tactical offensive operations be out back,
that Allied forces be pulled back into major base arcan and conv-cons
conserve their strengths while waiting to determine whether the Communist
abide by theim "understanding" to reduce the scale of activity
war activity.
escalate..
"And if the Communists begin nieuwskim to
re-escalate, we'll gt escalate twice as strongly," the
Vietnamoso officer reported, impp implying either a resumption of the
bombing of North Vietam or moving Allied troops noross the borders into
La o Laos or both.
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stages,
This taoit military de-escalation, now underway in its first
seames only partially and indirectly related to the American
Ha no Hanoi deal in Paris for the cessation of the bombing over North
Vietnam in exchange for a certain "understanding of what would follow
on the part of Hanoi. Instead, this military de-escalation seems more
directly and precisely related to reports that scoret arragements have been
made in Laos for "gradual and proportionate" withdrawl withdrawal
While the
of American and North Vietnamese troops from the "outh.
secret arrag arrangement is still broad in outline and general in soope
and commitment by both sides, it does include some specific options for
the regroupment of troops into enolaves prior to withdrawal-which is
what is currently suggested by General Abrams re-positioning of American
foroes and his advise for pull-back of Vietnamese forces. The
American and North Vietnamese Ambassadors to Laos, MessTS.
illiam H.
Sullivan from Waghato Washington and Le Van Hien from Hanoi, reportedly
load the shaping of the broad outlines of the disengagement plan.
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The final and formal agreement on the bilateral, concurrent withdrawal
of North Vietnamese and American troops is thought to be one of the ± first
items of it cubstantive discussion on tho 2 agenda of the Paris peace talko-
with or without the representation of the relua reluctant Saigon government.
The speech of secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, broadcast received in
Saigon at 0905 this morning, November 13, in explicitly said as much--that
proe productive talks could be continued tar between the U. s. and North
Vietnam for a military arrag arrangement" leading to a dimunition of
in the level of combat, even without the presence of the South Vietnamese
delegation in Parion point that a number of Saigonese have made in the past.
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If there was ever much doubt left in Saigon about Washington's haste
in liquidating his chunk of the Vietnam war even if it means forfeiting its
commitments to keep South Vietnam viable and partially non-Communist-the
Clifford speech this morning evaporated most illusions.
Low ranking Vietnamese, listening to the radio broadcast,
Low running The tramowe
were shooked
stunned by
ag at Clifford's tone and language; Western diplomats were
"the thunderclap--this is hardly the way to bring the GVN (Government of Vietnam)
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to the conference table. It will simply dig its four heels in like a mule and
remain obdurate." But, the most startling reaction came in the Amerioan
senior
equally.
Treffuglberg, and even more chagrined.
"Clifford was axi paying LEJ is going to Pasis with or without Thieu-
there's going to be an immediate beginning of an American pull-back and a
oeasfire by the time Nixon takes office.
This is peace at any price-and
Washington does not care how it looks to the rest of the world or
if the North Vietname oo simply alip in as the Americans leave,"
One
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no one knowledgeable Western observer suggesteds
"This is the beginning of the big American bug out. The Clifford
speech was the way of walking backwards through a revolving door and making
it appear as though they were marching in."
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Meanwhile, the "understanding
President
Meanwhile,
the "understanding" of the notions Hanoi was to refrain
from in exchange for the American cessation of the bombing appears to be so
quickly and frimis flimsily worked out on details that even responsible
American and South Vietnamese officials are still in the dark on the specifics-
and hence more in the dark about what Hanoi is actually violating.
Thieu was reportedly told by Amorioan Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker that
Hanoi agreed to call off "ground attacks and slice shellings" on "major
cities" yet now both American and Vietnamese military officers are clearly
worried about a Commuji Communist fourth offensive, part of which might
hit Saigon. But, Ambassador Anker has boon known to inolude the 44
ASWELL AS
provincial capitals in the details of Hanoi's part of the bargain.
American military command admits it has not repeat nabo not been given
a ny clarifications of this by Washington. "There is some confusion
in the attacks on the oitien," one senior source explained. "Some pres8
reports carrying backgrounders from ashington lists provincial capitals and
above; some any only urban oomters.
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But, what is a Vietnamese urban center. My Tho has been shelled
several times with a goodly amount of ordnenoo-it's a provincial
capital, but is it an urban center? Also what about a military compo
compound on the fringe of a mammothsxm provincial capital-in as in
the case of
hhiking Quang Tri? What about these military installations
on the fringes and inside greater metropolian Saigon? Is shelling of
Tan Son Nhut military airbase and the commeric commercial civilian
terminal a Communist violation? And what if the Communists
begin a wave of terroriam in the oities thats another form of ground at nok?
We don't know That will have to be refined in Washington. Did the
negotiators spell it out that clearly--or did they overlock that point?"
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But, South Vietnamese government officials who are claiming even
eks on district capitals as Communist vil violation and have counted
more than 30 since November 1-are becoming increasingly shrill at both the
Communists and the Americans for the incidents.
"If the Communists do not repent not shell New York or Washington
then the Amorioans do not ropest not recognize them as being major cities,"
one Vietnamese politician said sarcastically.
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Date
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Unknown, Nov. 13
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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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B191, F3
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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
