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Mr. Kissinger/Otis Chandler (L.A.)
11:10 p.m., May 6, 1970
K:
How are you?
C:
Are you working late? What's going on in Indochina, may
I ask?
We are confused.
K:
All we want to do is clean the supplies out of these base areas.
We have no intention of staying. We will be out by July 1 and probably
well before then. We will be winding up some the end of next week.
From the military and diplomatic points of view, it is going very well:
3,800 of the enemy killed; 800 prisoners; 4,000 rifles captured;
1,524 bunkers destroyed; 2 million pounds of rice captured; 800,000
rounds of small arms ammunition; 6,000 rockets; 2, 500 mortars;
24,000 pounds of medical supplies. We have captured 8 times as
much as the largest single month of any of the war in the Vietnam.
We have just begun to search some of these caches. This will go
way up. The military objective is being achieved which is to disrupt
their supply system. With the rainy season starting, it will take
4 months for them to go in. It will take them another 4-6 months to
restock assuming they dare to do it. We gain 8-10 months.
Our
casualties are extremely light -- 26 in the whole operation.
C:
Parrot's Beak?
K:
All the operations put together. There were only 3 at Parrot's
Beak because that is mainly the South Vietnamese. Diplomatically,
the Soviet response was terribly restrained, SO we may resume the
dialogue by bringing hom to them the risk of confrontation. Hanoi's
reaction was very tepid. They cancelled today's conference but
announced they would be there next week.
C:
Did the Russians move back from the SALT talks?
K:
No. There was a brief reference to it today. We were worried
they might walk out, but today's meeting was very businesslike and
very matter of fact. The problem is with the kids at home. I have
been seeing student delegations. The question is: is this issue of
the moral magnitude that universities are justified to wreck themselves
and tear the fabric of our society? If we allow ourselves to be driven
off -- because we are trying to save American lives -- this country
will become ungovernable.
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