Word: haiphong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Viet Nam. In Hanoi, four U.S. airmen -two still in their flight suits, two already in P.O.W. blues-were trotted out before gloating Communist newsmen at a press conference. The flyers, said their captors, had ejected from two F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers that had crashed near Hanoi and Haiphong. "All four looked very miserable and showed great fear on their faces," Radio Hanoi reported. They had come, it added, for a "brazen" attack "deep into the mainland of North Viet...
...Married. Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 56, French Premier, longtime Gaullist and World War II Resistance leader; and Micheline Chavelet, 42, Haiphong-born Parisian divorcee; she for the second, he for the third time; in Bordeaux, France...
Ellsberg described American war policy as that of a "threat" against the North Vietnamese and national liberation forces. "The U.S. threatens to destroy Hanoi, Haiphong and the Red River dykes unless the Vietnamese capitulate. The U.S. then depopulates enormous areas of Laos and Cambodia to show North Vietnam that the American threat is credible," Ellsberg said...
...large enough to sustain Saigon indefinitely. And with the machinery of American involvement in South Vietnam-the bombers, the spy planes, the computers and automated battle-fields-left intact, further escalation may well take the form of renewed bombing of the North, and, perhaps, the destruction of Hanoi and Haiphong...
Clearly there will be more: perhaps the use of tactical nuclear weapons, the bombing of Hanoi, the destruction of Haiphong harbor, an invasion of North Vietnam...