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...sever the supply lines that carry Hanoi's men and arms into the battle for South Viet Nam. After U.S. Thunderchiefs and Skyraiders cut the bridges at Thanhhoa, above Vinh and at Dong Phuong Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...
...plenty of men and factions to deal with in his own government. Western experts separate Ho's lieutenants into pro-Peking and pro-Moscow categories. Solidly in the so-called Moscow camp is Premier Pham Van Dong, 59, who is nominally Ho's second-in-command. But Pham is counterbalanced in the party power structure by Secretary General Le Duan, a Peking-style hardliner. And last week, in a cabinet shuffle that had Ho-watchers from Washington to Moscow scratching their heads, the standing committee of the National Assembly met in extraordinary session to replace...
...first time in two decades a Korean last week was granted an audience with the Emperor of Japan. He was South Korea's Foreign Minister, Dong Won Lee, and during his six-day visit to Tokyo he received the full red-carpet treatment, from a 19-gun salute to a cocktail party in the glittering Pearl Room of the Tokyo Hilton...
...last week, as Dong Won Lee and Japanese Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina conferred on a draft treaty, it was clear that the long and bitter relationship was yielding to a more conciliatory mood-or, as the Japanese put it, moodo. Though Japan's Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, made it very clear that Japan and South Korea were not entering into an anti-Communist pact, both countries unquestionably had been pushed together by Red China's explosion of a nuclear device...
...other Vietnam developments, both Russia and China talked of sending "volunteers" to fight in Vietnam in response to the latest raids on North Vietnam. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes hit again at Dong Hoi and Quang Khe, disabled another radar stations, and sank four enemy ships...