Word: haiphong
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...students and professors return to their classrooms. But many have concluded that they just are not making much of an impression on anybody. For them, the discouraging turning point was the public's reaction to Lyndon Johnson's decision to attack the oil depots around Hanoi and Haiphong: an overwhelming four out of every five Americans said that they approved of the bombing...
...total integration -- and may reinforce the instinctive opposition of whites to what they consider "forced housing" laws. And as the escalation of the air war in North Vietnam forces the President to agonize over hair-splitting strategic moves -- like whether or not to bomb power plants too close to Haiphong harbor for fear of damaging Russian tankers -- people backing the Administration's generally militant policy also listen carefully to amateur military experts like Richard Nixon who like to become publicly involved in the minutiae of guerilla war decisions...
...supplies. The oil tanks are being dispersed and put underground, and some Western observers in Hanoi say that the North's main problem is that supplies are pouring in so fast from Red China and the Soviet Union that bottlenecks are developing, particularly in the port of Haiphong. Inevitably, there are some shortages, as evidenced by the new slogan for the North Vietnamese militia: "Shoot down more U.S. aircraft with less ammunition...
...Minh's fire. Seven of last week's total were felled in one day, the most so far in any 24-hour period.* One reason for the mounting air casualties is new tactics by the Communists with their surface-to-air missiles. Prior to the Hanoi-Haiphong oil raids, the SAMs came up only one or two at a time. Now they are being released in volleys of six to eight, making them more difficult to dodge; a total of 40 SAMs was fired last week. In addition, the Communists have developed a new technique that cuts...
...demonstrate its pique over the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the Kremlin has put a damper lately on portions of the U.S.-Russian cultural-exchange program. The American Ballet Theater arrived in Moscow last June to an officially cool reception. After the bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil depots, the Russians stood the Americans up at a scheduled Soviet-American track meet in Los Angeles; when U.S. swimmers came to Moscow, Pravda reported the meet without mentioning them. Last month American Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fa-tha") Hines's sextet, on an official tour of Russia, found its bookings...