Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Cong took a few shots at a U.S. plane as it passed over a village. An hour and a half later, U.S. jets swooped down to strafe and bomb, hitting some villagers. After the raid, townspeople menaced the prisoners with clubs and pitchforks. "They would have killed us if the guards had not stopped them. I saw women holding little children saturated with blood...
...peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release civilian political prisoners, over satisfactory funding for the reconstruction of Indochina, and over Hanoi's release of American POWs provide more diplomatic evidence that the struggle of Vietnam...
...February, the President has decided to carpet-bomb the Federal budget, demolishing nearly every major social program inaugurated since the Eisenhower administration. Simultaneously, the war on the First Amendment continues, with newspaper reporters the first major casualties, but more on the way if Clay T. Whitehead, Director of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy, makes good his rhetorical attack on "ideological plugola" in the network news. If Whitehead has his way, the airwaves will soon hum with Richard Nixon Thought...
Kissinger himself did not see much bomb damage. He and his team occupied a high-ceilinged yellow stucco house, once the residence of the French administrator of Tonkin, with a formal garden graced by peach and plum blossoms in bloom. Walking along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake, Kissinger was the object of stares from passersby, but none approached him. He was impressed by the city's quiet, where the street traffic consists mainly of bicycles...
North Viet Nam, which had a gross national product of $1.6 billion in 1970 ($90 per capita), suffered extensive disruption of its light industry-notably food processing (rice, sugar, fish, tea) and textiles ("bombed to pieces," in the words of a Swedish authority). Hanoi's Viet Nam News Agency claims that the machinery that was evacuated to avoid bomb damage is now being returned. The North also has an embryonic coal-mining industry, which underwent some damage, but Japan stands ready to buy 2,000,000 tons annually from the Hon Gay coal mines...