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TODAY, THE Emergency National Moratorium Committee has called for a one-day nationwide moratorium against business as usual. This is not merely a commemoration of the deaths of four students at Kent State University who were shot by National Guardsmen during the 1970 Cambodia strike. It is a broad-based and locally-oriented action intended to give people throughout the country an opportunity to talk about the war, to picket draft boards, to hold town meetings. Among those who are supporting the moratorium are Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Sen. Mike Gravel, NPAC and the Black Caucus...
...forces, it is particularly important for us to continue our air strikes on the infiltration routes. If we see any substantial step-up in infiltration in the passes, for example, which lead from North Vietnam into Laos and, of course, the Laotian trail which comes down through Cambodia into South Vietnam--if we see that, we will have to not only continue our air strikes; we will have to step them...
...offensive, and there were Russian ships in Haiphong harbor during the American attack. And third, on the home front, Nixon risked alienating all over again the large numbers of Americans who were baffled, vexed or outraged by his last dramatic initiative in behalf of Vietnamization ?the incursion into Cambodia two years ago. Another Cambodia, another Kent State, and his re-election could be in doubt...
...only been stepped up; it has been re-Americanized. During the long relative lull in the fighting, Saigon's own air force had taken over 90% of the combat flying within South Viet Nam, while U.S. airpower focused on massive bombing of the infiltration routes in Laos and Cambodia. The Communist offensive changed all that. Within South Viet Nam, U.S. pilots have been flying a punishing 500 sorties a day, up from only 20 a day before the offensive (a sortie is one flight by one aircraft). For the pilots, attacking North Vietnamese tanks or defending beleaguered South Vietnamese...
...corps arrived to witness what they had been told would be a triumphal march to the north. The optimism was bolstered by U.S. Major General James F. Hollingsworth, who dropped from the sky in his chopper (code name: Dynamite Six). "The North Vietnamese are trying to get back to Cambodia now," he said. "We are going to kill 'em all before they get there. These NVA are like mice in a haystack." Another U.S. adviser was less sanguine. "This is just like the First Battle of Bull Run," he muttered, alluding to the civilian spectators and festive atmosphere that...