Word: haiphong
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...VIET NAM. We should have moved in and destroyed everything-everything that was in the hands of the enemy. I decry bombing innocent civilians, but there was no impediment to our destroying the docks and harbor of Haiphong. If the Pentagon had listened to us two or three years ago, we would have had a victory now with the flag waving high. Now, it's a sorry mess. You don't go out to fight Jack Dempsey with one arm tied behind your back. You don't send kids to get killed and not win. Well, that...
...Novelist Robert Merle's The Day of the Dolphin postulated the preposterous: two dolphins were trained to speak, then used to plant underwater mines off Haiphong to stage a nuclear confrontation with China. But last week the Navy reluctantly admitted that black dolphins, trained at a Navy laboratory in San Diego, had been taken to Viet Nam to be used in a classified mission of surveillance and detection, possibly against enemy frogmen...
Scores of fighter-bombers were weaving back and forth across North Viet Nam north of the 19th parallel in what appeared to be bewildering bombing patterns. Flares were drifting down to illuminate the vulnerable ships and docks of Haiphong harbor. As North Viet Nam's air-defense commanders opened up with cannon and missilery, MIGs scrambled into action all across the country, and South China also went into a state of advanced military readiness. To many North Vietnamese, it looked as if the U.S. were invading their country. It was 2 a.m. when allied monitors in South Viet Nam heard...
...Secretary Melvin Laird elaborately called "limited-duration protective-reaction air strikes"-a 24-hour series of raids involving nearly 150 U.S. fighter-bombers from airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand and from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf. Radio Hanoi asserted that the U.S. had attacked the port of Haiphong and other targets in the northern part of the country; the Pentagon insisted that the bombing took place below the 19th parallel, in the southern panhandle of North Viet...
...hand to wage war against Asia until 1972. The current bombing, reports suggest, is an attempt to gauge the depth of anti-war feeling in the U. S. If Nixon concludes that he has stilled domestic protest, he will presumably unveil another, greater atrocity, such as the closing of Haiphong harbor or the invasion of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by American ground troops...