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...committee also secretly placed an ad in the New York Times, protesting a Times editorial assailing the Nixon mining of Haiphong. The ad claimed to express the opinion of ten independent citizens representing "the people." Phillip Joanou, an official who handled the Nixon committee's advertising, said the ad actually was written in the White House by Charles W. Colson, who was then Nixon's special counsel. The General Accounting Office charged the Nixon committee with violating campaign-fund laws by not reporting the use of its money for these purposes...
...when Hanoi announced that it would not release more U.S. prisoners until it was assured of an end to violence against its representatives on the Joint Military Commission in South Viet Nam. In retaliation, the U.S. then stopped its troop withdrawals and pulled its mine-clearing ships out of Haiphong harbor. Rogers met first with the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese and Viet Cong, then with the North Vietnamese alone. At the same time, both the Chinese and Soviet representatives applied pressure to Hanoi's delegation-and suddenly, the P.O.W. release was back on schedule. Hanoi officials and the Viet...
...Soviets did not cancel the Moscow summit when we bombed Hanoi and mined the Haiphong harbor in May. Are we to believe that the generation of peace would collapse if we learned a little of what Nixon and Brezhnev talked about when they took a hydrofoil ride on the Moscow River last spring...
...sent men to the moon, the people who are portrayed in western movies and TV thrillers, the people who conducted a war in Viet Nam." The same German who goes out and throws a stone through the window of America House in protest of the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong cheers the U.S. military band marching in the Carnival parade...
...North is actually greater because of the concentrated U.S. bombing campaigns. Most of North Viet Nam's electric-generating capacity was destroyed, its railroad lines cut and its highways disrupted. Work has only just begun on repairing the heavy damage to the docks and other port facilities in Haiphong (and removing the mines the U.S. laid there). An obvious initial task will be to clear away the rubble. For rebuilding, the basic need is money to buy bricks, concrete, tools and machinery...