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...first seven days that followed Nixon's unleashing of the huge B-52s and the smaller, faster fighter-bombers provided no decisive answers for the President. Neither the Nixon Doctrine nor the South Vietnamese army has failed?yet. U.S. airpower has not turned back the North Vietnamese ?yet. If it had prevented an almost certain rout of ARVN, the issue on the battlefields was still in doubt (see story on page 16). A 20,000-man ARVN force led by President Nguyen Van Thieu's personal elite guard, dispatched to relieve An Loc, abandoned the effort 15 miles short...
...concerned about what might happen politically. Finally the President made up his mind. Top-secret instructions were sent in code via satellite to the B-52 bases and to the Seventh Fleet. Next day he sent the order to raid Hanoi and Haiphong. Within a few hours, the B-52s lifted off the long runways and the Phantoms catapulted from carrier decks in the Tonkin Gulf...
SUDDENLY, it seemed almost like 1968 all over again. Once more, waves of U.S. aircraft-B-52s and carrier-based fighter-bombers-swept into the heart of North Viet Nam on heavy bombing raids. Their main target this time: the port of Haiphong, which had been off limits for U.S. planes since President Lyndon Johnson cut back the bombing of North Viet Nam four years ago. The planes dropped their bomb loads on fuel dumps, warehouses and, as the U.S. command in Saigon put it in an all-embracing phrase, "other activities which are supporting the invasion of South Viet...
...escalation of the war in Vietnam can only lead to worsening U.S. relations with China and Russia. Now that Nixon has sent B-52s to hit Hanoi it is unclear what else he is prepared to do and what other risks he is willing to take...
...Nixon Administration perpetrated such a violent military initiative. Nonetheless, even as American soldiers have been brought all too slowly back home. Nixon's Administration has subtly changed the war from one fought by people to one fought by machines. American ground forces have been supplanted by B-52s, rifles by bombs...