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Kiker: Tet Offensive Put U.S. On Defense BY Rl'SH OTEY EDITOR I’( Bliu* Stocking \RC' Nows Correspondent Hnuu Kiki'r told his audience at the PC Business and Econ omies C 1 u h banquet last Thursday niuht that the out look is bleak lor the United States m \ ictnam and that Richard Nixon could very well be America's next Presi dent THE WAR Kiker. a 1951 PC graduate, 1 was on assignment in Saigon durinu the rei'ent Tet olten-i -i\e h\ tht 1 \Tet Conn. He stated that the situation re- "Ultinn Irom this series of ma- por attacks is one which bor- 1 dels on chaos 'The cities which were once stronnholds lor tin South Vietnamese government arc now in bad] shape Nearlv all ol them were hit hv the Viet Conn, I and m the Delta forty to iif- tv percent ol the cities have been destroyed Today in South Vietnam schools are! dosed, roads are impassable, and the refugee problem has doubled almost overnight. The Tet offensive put the Uni- * led States m a defensive post-i Hon. whether we like it or, not. ' he added 1 he* journalist pointed out that a major reason for the! \ let Conn successes was a massive intelligence failure Ho said that the United States relies almost entirely upon the South Vietnamese govern ment for intelligence re|x>rts, and emphasized that South "V ictnam's intelligence system is an "administrative horror story consisting ol seven teen separate branches with little organ'/ation and coord ination I mind in and among these groups Kiker discouraged Ameri- 'can attitudes of optimism! concerning the war in Viet nam "The future is bleak,” he predict.. | •*\Ve have con sistently undcre timated the stiength of tie \ iet Cong, and today for the first time they are heavily armed m vol- 1 time Kiker continued by living that more than half' I)()U<; KIKER . . tile Viet Cong troops have not been committed while at the same time those who have attacked American positions havn t retreated He felt that further Vfet Cong attacks it suiting in heavv American losses are inevitable, but he said that exactly whcie or when or how these attacks would be effected is vet to be seen McCarthy The youth who worked for Senator McCarthv during the New Hampshire p r i m a r \ were impressive to Kiker as he covered this event tor . . 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