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While throngs cheered Bobby Kennedy in West Virginia last weekend, state officials smiled with their teeth and fumed. Seems that Donald Dell, an advance man for the RFK juggernaut, wanted a state police escort for The Candidate. The governor’s executive assistant refused. But, Dell stormed, Humphrey will have one when he comes. Humphrey is incumbent veep, assistant explained. Dell: “Well, maybe he’s not going to be an incumbent very much longer, and if that happens, you and some of these people down in West Virginia aren’t going to be too happy with how you are treated.”

Our man in Vietnam, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, should be used to tough assignments by now. For the past year, he has been concerned with the training and performance of the South Vietnamese Army— and in that period, the combat effectiveness of the ARVN has improved to the point where President Thieu can speak of seriously going it alone someday against the Communists. Gen. Abrams is better versed in unconventional warfare than his predecessor, Gen. Westmoreland; unless he is just a lame duck, his elevation to the command could signal new, more flexible approaches to fighting the war in the field.

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While throngs cheered Bobby Kennedy in West Virginia last weekend, state officials smiled with their teeth and fumed. Seems that Donald Dell, an advance man for the RFK juggernaut, wanted a state police escort for The Candidate. The governor’s executive assistant refused. But, Dell stormed, Humphrey will have one when he comes. Humphrey is incumbent veep, assistant explained. Dell: “Well, maybe he’s not going to be an incumbent very much longer, and if that happens, you and some of these people down in West Virginia aren’t going to be too happy with how you are treated.”

Our man in Vietnam, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, should be used to tough assignments by now. For the past year, he has been concerned with the training and performance of the South Vietnamese Army— and in that period, the combat effectiveness of the ARVN has improved to the point where President Thieu can speak of seriously going it alone someday against the Communists. Gen. Abrams is better versed in unconventional warfare than his predecessor, Gen. Westmoreland; unless he is just a lame duck, his elevation to the command could signal new, more flexible approaches to fighting the war in the field.