Word: haiphong
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...Election Day mandate. No incumbent President since Hoover, guillotined by the Depression, has ever been defeated. Moreover, Yankelovich believes that the critical moment of the 1972 campaign occurred when the Russians decided to go ahead with the Moscow summit conference even after the President had announced the mining of Haiphong harbor and escalated the bombing. Many Americans then concluded that the danger from Viet Nam was over. If the as yet unfulfilled promise of an imminent peace settlement was beginning to raise doubts in the electorate in the last days of the campaign, that anxiety was still too vague...
...POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS are similar to military campaigns," John H. Chafee, Nixon's former secretary of the Navy and the man who oversaw the mining of Haiphong harbor, told his campaign field commanders. Mapping out the Nixon battle plan for capturing five additional Senate seats, including one from Rhode Island, Chafee told his troops, "I can win only if we go out there and fight...
Daniel Ellsherg 52, charged during a speech last night at Tufts University that the Soviet Union and Red China failed to react forcefully to the mining of Haiphong harbor because Henry A. Kissinger 50 had alerted them to the possibility of the mining three years in advance...
...plunged into the capital's social life. But Heinz has taken his political responsibilities seriously. A hard worker and self-styled moderate, he has bucked the Republican leadership on some big issues, including the war. Last spring on the floor of the House, he questioned the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the bombing of the North...
...other operations of comparable complexity. These, in turn, pass more complicated cases up to any of 26 provincial hospitals; each of these institutions has between 300 and 500 beds, and graduates 70 to 80 assistant physicians a year. At the top are the "center hospitals" of Hanoi and Haiphong, legacies of the French occupation that Gardner found "clearly recognizable as university hospitals by any standard...