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Interrupting its regular broadcasting schedule for the bulletin report, the official North Vietnamese radio station said the air attack started at 2:30 a. m. Hanoi time and lasted more than an hour, with the American planes bombing targets in an area ranging from the port city of Haiphong to Hoa Binh province southwest of Hanoi. The Vietnamese language broadcast, monitored in Hong Kong, did not give the name and the location of the prisoner of war camp where it said there were American bombing casualties...
Measure of Distress. After several futile attempts to stamp out black-marketeering in the collectives in Vinh Phuc province, Party Theoretician Truong Chinh lamented that "corruption still remains, just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...China and other Communist allies was stepped up in 1965; since then, outside economic assistance, aside from the huge volume of military aid, has totaled at least $1 billion. The Soviets now ship North Viet Nam some 50.000 tons of supplies a month, and their engineers are working in Haiphong on an eightfold expansion of the harbor facilities. Hanoi has also received a hospital and trucks from Bulgaria, engineering equipment from Czechoslovakia, medical aid from East Germany, machinery and consumer goods from Hungary and economic aid from Poland. North Vietnamese get training in various skills in Russia, China and several...
...months to more than 100,000. Much of that increase probably resulted from a blanket, hard-sell promotion (including phone calls to every parish in the country). Some of it is also a response to the unyielding ideology of Jesuit Editor Daniel Lyons, who would have the U.S. blockade Haiphong and send Nationalist Chinese troops to Viet Nam. While an ad hoc committee of bishops was working to resolve the California table-grape strike, Lyons castigated both the bishops and the strikers. On matters of doctrine Twin Circle has supported the Pope vociferously, and has reflected traditionalist misgivings about innovations...
...nuclear war, is surprisingly inadequate for interdiction strikes, "a fact shrouded in professional embarrassment." He claims that the Communist war effort in the South requires a volume of supplies so small compared with the North's capacity to deliver that it cannot be effectively shut off. Sealing off Haiphong, he also contends, would not have been a decisive move, since only a small portion of vital war supplies arrives through that port...