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Original title: "pacify", Keever's title: "'Disasterous Defeat' for Allies Pacification Program Along DMZ by Communist Offensive", Article draft about the pacification program's failure to prevent the Tet Offensive and its massive setback during since the Offensive, for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about the pacification program

Original title: "corps", Keever's title: "Communists Suffer Heavy Losses Around Saigon, Hurt Pacification Program", Article draft about Communist casualties in their push for Saigon and the effect of the Tet Offensive on the U.S.'s rural pacification program, for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about American pacification in rural South Vietnam

Original title: "Development", Article draft about the strategic revolutionary development program, for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about the strategic revolutionary development program

Keever's title: "Vice President Humphrey gives Viet's applied [?] pacification program," article about the pacification program plans announced in the Honolulu Declaration by Vice President Humphrey, for the New York Herald Tribune

Article about the plans announced in the Honolulu Declaration by Vice President Humphrey

Keever's title: "Edward Lansdale 'Tries to Make Haste Slowly' in Wooing South Vietnamese in Pacification", article about the American policy of keeping the political status quo in South Vietnam

Article about the American policy of keeping the political status quo

Original title: "AMERICAN MARINES AND PACIFICATION HEADACHES", Keever's title: "'Keeping your rear covered,': Big problem for U.S. Marines Securing Danang Airbase" This article was later reproduced in Congressoinal Record. Article about American Marines' delay in claiming Hoi An, article 4 of 4-article series, for the New York Herald Tribune

Article about American Marine Corps' failure to reclaim Hoi An

Keever's title: "The Three Little Pigs Saga", Article draft about the pacification of Phú Yên province, for Newsweek Magazine

Article about Phú Yên province

Memorandum about rules for journalists

The Monopoly Game

Third article in the "Why Vietnam" series

Original title: "battles", Keever's title: "No Chance of Victory Spurs Communist Defector; Many Others Killed." Article draft about senior military officials' belief that victory in Vietnam is inevitable. Written for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about military assessment of an immanent victory in Vietnam

Original title: "westy", Keever's title: "Gen. Westmoreland Lacked Counterinsurgency Strategy and Machine." Keever's article draft about General Westmoreland's reassignment after counterinsurgency failures. He eventually went to serve as Army Chief of Staff. Written for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about General Westmoreland's reassignment

Original title: "appraisal", Article draft about South Vietnam's call for an analysis of Allied strategy, for the Christian Science Monitor

Article about a review of Allied war strategy

Original title: "Pacification", Keever's title: "Pacification 'Program is as Impossible as Trying to Drive a Car with Square Wheels,': Saigon Official," Article about Vietnamese commanders and their American advisors failure to get the floundering pacification program back on the right track, published for North American Newspaper Alliance

Article about the failures of the pacification program

United States government memo encouraging reporters to cover II Corps Zone and informing them of military assistance available in the area, including a list of suggested story leads, information about II Corps Zone, and a map of II Corps Zone

Government memo encouraging reporters to cover II Corps Zone

Keever's title: "The Three Little Pigs Saga", Article draft about the pacification of Phú Yên province, for Newsweek Magazine

Article about Phú Yên province

Beverly Keever's MACV press card. The card lists her card number, name, birth date, eye color, hair color, height, weight, authorized patronage (i.e. she is listed as having access to the theater, commisary, medical facitities, and exchange), and military grade. The card also records the issuing office, place of issue, issuing officer, issue date, and expiration date

Beverly Keever's MACV press card