Word: entrep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon-one that he had been reluctant to take. Inescapably, it was a blow of retribution; the U.S. said that its new thrust northward was prompted by North Viet Nam's "mass invasion" of the South. The military justification was that Haiphong, is the North's: entrepôt for war supplies. But those supplies cannot affect the war between now and the start of the rainy season next month, when military activity slows down anyway. Thus the only strictly military advantage of the bombing was to slow the movement of supplies southward for any new North...
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