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John Braxton, who will be a junior at Swarthmore, was a member of the eight man crew of the 50 foot ketch Phoenix which sailed last winter from Hong Kong to Haiphong, defying a State Department ban and government statute, to deliver several thousands dollars worth of vital surgical and x-ray equipment to the North Vietnamese Red Cross...
...shaded boulevards around the Petit Lac, the garden spot in Hanoi's center, are daily thronged with strollers. The restaurants are full of people, many of them downing breaded shrimp, the favorite dish of Hanoi's residents. Each weekend, the routes in and out of Hanoi and Haiphong are jammed with parents headed for the countryside to visit their children, most of whom are encamped there for the duration, and men and women who work on the city's outskirts hurrying inward to visit friends and relatives. But the antiaircraft gunners still keep ready watch, and occasional...
...addition, the decentralization of North Viet Nam's primitive industry has proved a boon to the rural economy; the factories may never be pulled back into Hanoi and Haiphong and Nam Dinh. Bringing back into Hanoi the 400,000 people who were evacuated would also raise large food-distribution problems. They were moved out in the first place not just because of the bombing but to take them to the rice areas, so that rice would not have to be shipped into the city and thus require transport that could otherwise be used for war goods. North Viet...
...North Viet Nam. After 14 months, Baggs reported, the North's military and transport equipment had notably improved. Antiaircraft guns pointed skyward in thick clusters, and the often-bombed roads and makeshift pontoon bridges rumbled under a steady flow of new trucks. On the road from Hanoi to Haiphong, Baggs counted 157 trucks, then gave up counting as they kept coming. U.S. reconnaissance shows that many of those trucks are moving at high speed down into the panhandle near the border with South Viet...
...Gimmicks. In his most recent statements, however, Nixon has dropped his call for more drastic action against North Viet Nam, notably the mining of Haiphong harbor. Last month in New Hampshire, he gave rise to the secret-plan notion by giving his "pledge" that a new Administration would "end the war and win the peace in the Pacific." He conceded that he had no "pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks." He was merely making the quite obvious point that any new President would be under particular pressure to stop hostilities...