Withdrawal ordered
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Nixon ordered 25,000 men brought home from the war zone last June and hoped to announce a second withdrawal by the end of August, but this was delayed because of increased battlefield activity by the Communists.
Nixon met with top military leaders and cabinet members Friday for a high-level review
of the war, but press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Monday Nixon had decided on how many troops would be involved in the second troop withdrawal even before last week's strategy review.
Following the Friday conference at the White House, Gen Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, returned to Saigon and reported to President Nguyen Van Thieu. Ky said Abrams informed Thieu of Nixon's withdrawal plans Sunday.
Troop withdrawals need justification
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon presumably will have to justify any new U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam on the grounds Saigon is now capable of taking over more of the combat.
His chief advisers and spokesmen, by their own statements, have ruled out in recent days the other alternatives the President said would be taken into consideration before any more withdrawals are made:
1-The State Department says there has been no progress at the peace talks in Paris and 2-The White House, just three days ago, cited a stepup in military activity by the Communists as justification for resuming B52 bomber raids after a 36-hour halt.
The timing and circumstances of the new withdrawal announcement are sure to add to the growing feeling of puzzlement in Washington over Nixon's handling of the war.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield expressed the bewilderment of many Washington observers when he said he could not see much point in the administration's brief lull in BS2 attacks.
He represented the views of a considerable segment of opinion when he noted the 36-hour pause hardly seemed long enough to
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gain any change in Communist tactics.
And now, right behind this off-again, on-again performance, South Vietnamese Vice-President Nguyen Coa Ky offhandedly one-ups both President Nguyen Van Thieu and President Nixon on the withdrawal announcement.
Whatever the White House says, there undoubtedly will be those who contend the new decision on another pullout was motivated primarily by concern over rising domestic pressure and the reopening soon of American colleges under the threat of additional student demonstrations against the war.
Ziegler said Nixon's announcement would come after the United States finished consulting its allies which supply troops for Vietnam-Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea. The consultations began over the weekend and were expected to be completed Monday.
Nixon had said repeatedly further troop withdrawals would be based on three factors: the level of Communist military activity; progress at the Paris peace talks; and, the ability of the South Vietnamese to take on a larger share of the war.
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