Word: haiphong
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...Lederer walked from Hanoi to Haiphong with 2000 Vietnamese refugees who were going South after the Vietminh victory over the French. "They were old men and women carrying small children -- no young men," he says. He also learned from these refugees that "they were all Catholic, and their Priests told them God had moved to Saigon...
Among other potential Republican candidates, Nixon strikes a tougher stance, calling for a blockade of Haiphong harbor and intensified bombing of the North. Reagan says that "a cause worth fighting is a cause worth winning." Rockefeller stands with the President, declaring that Johnson "must back the American commitment to freedom-and we must back him in this commitment." Percy, the least bellicose of the lot, is somewhat ambivalent: he proposes neither an unconditional bombing halt nor an outright pull-out but emphasizes the need to "accelerate the pursuit of peace...
...asked, "can Hanoi enjoy the advantage of restricted bombing of military targets? How long can the Viet Cong be permitted to take sanctuary in Cambodia? How long can supply trails through Laos be permitted to operate? How long can war matériel be permitted to come into Haiphong harbor? How long can the North be permitted to infiltrate soldiers and weapons across the demarcation line?" As to peace talks, Ky made it clear that he would not accept a coalition government that included the Viet Cong...
...truck convoy or bombs out a bridge, the cost of Hanoi's involvement in South Viet Nam goes up another notch. Still, the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint by sparing a long list of choice and vital targets. The roster of restricted areas includes the docks of Haiphong harbor, the MIG jet fighter bases that ring Hanoi and the 25-mile zone bordering Red China, which is increasingly used as a sanctuary for truck convoys bringing supplies from China. Last week the U.S. decided to raise the North's costs considerably by striking hard at a target that...
...preventing a damage assessment. Next day the planes went back to Thai Nguyen again, with a second 80 tons of high explosives. At about the same time, carrier-based bombers hit a surface-to-air missile storage base, a power plant and an ammunition depot near Hanoi and Haiphong...