Word: haiphong
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...should permit three or four Navy recruits to take command of a destroyer and fire 5-in. shells indiscriminately at Hanoi and Haiphong, the press and demonstrators all over the world would be up in arms; our embassies would be attacked by mobs, etc. On the other hand, an inexperienced group of part-time farmers can fire heavy 5-in. (122-mm.) rockets shotgun-fashion at Saigon [Feb. 28], a city of over 2,000,000 people, over a period of nine months and the attacks rate no more than a, few lines on page 98 in U.S. newspapers...
...level of conflict to new peaks. Among them: invasion in force of Laos or even North Viet Nam with U.S. troops, bombing the Red River dikes to flood the North's chief food-producing region, or making a direct aerial attack on the key North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. Neither U.S. nor world opinion would stand for any of those, and Nixon's new entente with Western Europe would vanish overnight. Still untried, but less drastic, would be a naval blockade of Haiphong or Sihanoukville in Cambodia, the two biggest ports of entry for enemy materiel. The most...
...early 1960s, when the two sides began girding for a bigger conflict, Saigon refused to allow the ICC to see the manifests of incoming aircraft (loaded with U.S. advisers and equipment). At the same time, Hanoi kept the commissioners from inspecting Haiphong Harbor. "The People's Army of [North] Viet Nam," said an ICC report at the time, "expressed its inability, despite its best efforts, to provide a boat with a suitable outboard motor...
...Minh protested that such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...
Braxton and the others spent two and a half days in Haiphong, during which time they toured the city and met with local officials...