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Clearly, the President wants everyone to know, and particularly his Chinese hosts in February, that he will bomb North Vietnam as much as he pleases until the very end, November 3, 1972. In the meantime, recent setbacks in Cambodia and Laos as well as expectation of an imminent offensive by North Vietnamese and PRG forces in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam seem to undercut the President's bold rhetoric. And, when Nixon is in Peking in February, the leaders of the Indochinese revolutionaries will be having a strategy session of their own in Hanoi...
...attacks all about? In part, they reflected concern about a recent and rapid military buildup by the North Vietnamese. U.S. air operations over the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos had been severely cramped by a formidable North Vietnamese air defense effort (TIME, Jan. 3). In Laos and Cambodia, government troops were already reeling in the face of an unusually early and vigorous dry-season offensive by the enemy. U.S. military men in Saigon expect that offensive to spread to South Viet Nam, perhaps when Tet arrives next month...
...Hanoi well knew, the pilots were casualties of a fierce but little-noticed air war that has boiled up rapidly-not over North Viet Nam but over the Communist infiltration routes into Laos and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into South Viet Nam and Cambodia. In one 27-hour period last week, four Phantoms ran into fatal trouble over Laos. One was downed by ground fire; two ran out of fuel while trying to evade missiles and flak along the North Vietnamese border; the fourth was destroyed by a missile-armed MIG-21-the first kill by a North...
...Gauntlet. Like the ground war, the air war has subsided in South Viet Nam only to continue in Laos and Cambodia. By some measures, American air activity is way down; since the peak days of 1968, aircraft sorties have declined by 65%, while the number of U.S. combat planes in the area has dropped from 1,350 to about...
...life in Indochina. Because of new techniques, including low-level "saturation" attacks, the effectiveness of airpower in stopping the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail has risen from a dismal 15% to a remarkable 85% over the past two years. Close air support, moreover, has saved Cambodia's plucky army from disaster in any number of battles...