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Western journalists and diplomats who have recently visited North Viet Nam all report that the country is a land of contrasts. While in some tiny rural communities life proceeds with undisturbed serenity, in cities like Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa and Vinh, where destruction is almost total, traditional patterns of living have been completely disrupted. Foreign observers agree, however, that the U.S. raids have not crushed the morale of the North Vietnamese or weakened their determination to carry on at all costs. Says Jean Sainteny, a former diplomat who established the French mission in Hanoi in 1954 and has returned...
...Survival in the countryside: "For some reason, Americans don't bomb ferries. Every bridge I saw in North Viet Nam was destroyed, but the ferries were safe. Once the planes came when I was on a ferry in Nam Dinh. 'Don't jump,' said my guide, 'or you will die from the concussion like a fish in a river where grenades are tossed...
...Industry: "The Nam Dinh textile mill has been bombed for the past five years, but its machines continue to produce clothes for the country. Fifty miles from the gutted factory foundation stands a thatched farmhouse under a grove of trees. Outside there are water buffalo and other animals. Inside there are rows of Chinese looms powered by a small generator. Both the clothes and the farm products are moved at night to the city...
...maintains that civilians are not being bombed in the Delta. But last week Tom Fox of TIME's Saigon bureau paid a visit to Dinh Tuong province. He found that in fact the bombing has claimed numerous civilian casualties. When they heard Fox inquiring about the bombing, more than a dozen other patients came forward to offer the names of civilians and villages that have been struck. "The bombs are falling everywhere, and the civilians are getting killed," one woman said...
...Viet Cong had recently broken contact in the province, and that no one really knew where they were. In the American effort to eliminate this elusive, wandering enemy -numbering 5,000 by the officer's estimate-the bombs are dropping night and day on the friendly Vietnamese of Dinh Tuong, who can only do their best to stay out of harm...