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- in the New York Times which was quite misleading in that it
l eft the im.prcssion that the Viet C ong had achieved a major victory
over the Vietnamese. Viet Cong loss es in this battle were sizeable .
Although the week has been bloody, it has been pretty
- prepared notes on the
following items:
a. Soviet Space Activities --Another Soviet effat to reach
Venus i s now in flight. He expressed grav e concern about a New York
Tixnes story by John. Finney revealing that two previous Soviet efforts
to reach
- Thieu is a stabilizing force. He prefers to sit in the back
ground, consequently, he will not take the post of Prime Minister. The present
Saigon Government framework is solid but the members of the new government
are not yet well - known to us
- proposals when as ked a bout them
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some days ag o .
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Mr . McCone said the photographic intelligence shown the President
was so new that there had been little time to analyze it. He said that
neither
- interest in the copper stockpile. Several persons,
including As sis tant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Tony Solomon,
responded. The copper stockpile is or soon will be in balance. The shortage
will be met by production from a new Arizona mine whi
- to a question as to what the Cong r essional leaders should be
told when they joined the group for the formal NSC Meeting at 10: 30, the
President said he would ask Secretary McNamara to report on the South
Vietnamese raid and to give any new information about
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Secr etary McNamara, speaking from the attached
that Viet Cong actions had reached a new high in July, including
the highest number of weapons lost by the South Vietnamese to the
Viet Cong. It has been a difficult month, but the increased Viet Cong
- are running out of gas. New
forces a re needed. U.S. troops are outside H ue. The weather is down on
the deck, meaning that there is no fogistic resupply by air. A new attack on
Danang is possible. The North Vietnamese Second Division is in the area. More
U.S
- the enemy militarily; we must make
demons trable progress in pacification; at the same time, we must add a new
ingredient forced on us by the facts. Specifically, we must improve our position
by gett ing ourselves into a military posture that we credibly
- by protecting threatened
elements of the population in 9re-planned safe havens. (This
will be discussed with the British and the Canadians on
Thursday and we have alerted our posts in other countries
contributing components to the UN force in ?reparation