A fortnight ago, the number of U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam soared past the 100,000 mark. Last week another 7,500 "combat-support and combat-support service personnel" landed from two troopships, bringing the total to nearly 108,000a fourth of them front-line marines and infantrymen. And at week's end the 15,800 men and 424 helicopters and planes of the Army's 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division began to disembark at Qui Nhon.
Thus, by the end of this week the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam will have reached President Johnson's target of 125,000 men, announced only last July 28an increase of 50,000 in just six weeks....
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