Word: haiphong
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...figure in the Western world was more critical of President Nixon's decision to resume the bombing of North Viet Nam than Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme. In an emotional statement last December. Palme, 45, an intense, dedicated socialist, compared the aerial attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong to the past atrocities of "Guernica, Oradour, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville, Treblinka." Washington, long annoyed by Sweden's harsh criticism of the U.S. role in the war, reacted sharply, telling Stockholm, in effect, not to bother sending a new ambassador to the U.S. capital for the time being...
...Nixon, the troop withdrawals began, but so did the bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong. Peace was in hand, out of hand, and in hand again as fast as one could say "light at the end of the tunnel...
...time President Nixon ordered the resumption of bombing over Hanoi and Haiphong on Dec. 18, B-52 Pilot Michael Heck, 30, had racked up more than 150 bombing missions during a number of stints in Indochina, a Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with eleven oakleaf clusters-and an impressive list of reservations about the Viet Nam War. With each new bombing run over the populated cities of the North, those doubts grew. Finally, on the day after Christmas, Heck announced to his wing commander that he could no longer in good conscience participate in the intensified bombing campaign...
...sense of reality seemed to fail him. He was not prepared for the continuing avalanche of outrage and revulsion that his actions set off in practically every Western capital. Last week the Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution deploring the U.S. air attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong-a form of protest that, as Secretary of State for External Affairs Mitchell Sharp acknowledged, "we rarely use." Nor did Nixon expect the bombing to be so costly in American lives and planes; by week's end 16 B-52s had been lost and 98 airmen killed, captured or missing...
WITH EACH NEW outrage of the American war policy in Vietnam, the coalition of opposition to those policies has grown broader. Now, in the aftermath of President Nixon's Christmastime carpet bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, the coalition against his tactics in Vietnam has grown to include the leaders and members of the Democratic caucuses of the House and Senate as well as significant elements of the executive bureaucracy itself. And, if published reports are correct, the Defense and State Department bureaucracies, as well as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also opposed the President's latest bombing...