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Six Tons Empty. Sihanouk, who had called for the conference in the first place in order to guarantee his borders against "encroachments" by Thailand and South Viet Nam, now viewed the talks as a bit of international skulduggery in which his country would be used as "bait" for a fishing...
Bamboo Bottoms. More than 50,000 fishing junks ply South Viet Nam's bulging, 1,000-mile coastline. The ragged reach from the southern coast to the 17th parallel is a navigator's nightmare of coves and sandbars, ready to crack the keel of any U.S. destroyer that...
On the radarscope of a U.S. warship, the coastline and the fishing fleet blend into a single, miasmic blur, and no technique other than close search has yet been devised to distinguish Communist from honest fisherman.
Of obvious advantage is the design of the Vietnamese fishing boats that carry most of the murderous contraband. Over the centuries, Viet fishermen have learned to bottom their boats in bamboo. The intricately woven basket hulls of their fishing junks-some of them more than 100 feet long-keep out...
Brandt was not resting either. In an election-year ramble that included "consultations" with Lyndon Johnson in Washington, fishing in Florida and speeches in New York, West Germany's Socialist candidate for Chancellor supported U.S. policies in Viet Nam-and urged the U.S. to promote German reunification. "It was...