World: SOUTH VIET NAM

Impossible to tell who's winning

It is often impossible to tell who is winning, but there is no end in sight to a decade of fighting

Back to Saigon this week, for the second time in three months, goes U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. His aim: to size up South Viet Nam's new regime, which was helped to power by the U.S. on the theory that it would fight the war more effectively than the murdered President Diem, but which, so far at least, has provided disappointing leadership. The war is still showing alarming drift, and the Communist guerrillas have...

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