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More Than Time. In Round 2, Harriman abandoned his earlier geniality and matched Thuy, barb for barb. Particularly pointed was his use of a 1956 admission by Hanoi's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap: "We executed too many honest people. Terror became far too widespread. Torture came to be regarded as a normal practice." Harriman also sought to sound an upbeat note by declaring that he had been "struck by some similarities in our respective positions," notably expressions of hope for an independent and peaceful South Viet Nam. But the North Vietnamese swiftly rejected the overture, declaring: "In fact...
...killing all those inside. The bombing touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than 2,000 fires in the immediate vicinity of Khe Sanh, indicating that ammunition and gasoline caches were being hit hard. In all, the Air Force estimates that the bombing destroyed 3,500 tons of Giap's supplies-enough to sustain a full division in combat for a month...
Some time around March 12, the day before the 14th anniversary of his victory at Dienbienphu, General Giap seems to have come to the conclusion that he would not be able to repeat his earlier feat, and he stopped sending replacements to Khe Sanh. Then, on March 22, he ordered one of his two battered divisions around Khe Sanh to withdraw...
...weather brought the fighter-bombers to join with the B-52s in earth-jarring raids. The heavy U.S. bombing only heightened the desire of the remaining North Vietnamese troops to get out. The testimony of captured NVA regulars indicates that the bombing so disrupted the Communist supply lines that Giap's men were nearly starving...
...natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes, two of which were dog, which is a delicacy...