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...later, it became a daily routine. The American campaign from the skies is running some 670 sorties a day over both North and South Viet Nam, rivaling that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded 41 smaller fuel depots, bridges, flak sites and more than 230 barges...
...toasts. Said the President of the U.S. with a twinkle in his eye: "Someone suggested, Mr. Prime Minister, that I begin this toast by saying: 'My good disassociates' "-a reference to Harold Wilson's "dissociating" the British government from the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil-storage areas. In reply, Wilson complimented the President on his sense of humor, then turned soberly to his most pressing problem: Britain's economic crisis. Said Wilson, grimly declaring his resolve to beat it: "If we have to fight alone, we shall. But I am confident, Mr. President...
Ground fire tore into his Crusader outside Haiphong, setting it aflame and pushing the plane into an all but ungovernable wobble. Unable to reach the sea, Adams cajoled the faltering craft toward a desolate-looking mountain area, away from the densely populated Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Half a mile from a looming mountain peak, at an altitude of 200 ft., he radioed: "Sorry about that. See you in a year"-then he pulled his cockpit ejection loops seconds before the plane piled into the peak...
Picking Up the Pace. President Johnson ordered U.S. planes to bomb oil-storage depots near Hanoi and Haiphong. The Russians tried to make political capital out of the bombings by canceling a track meet with the "aggressor" U.S., and the Poles followed suit. So last week's Poland-U.S. meet at Berkeley, Calif., became an All-American meet instead, and the mile race was substituted for a 1,500-meter event. The "rabbits" were Jim's competitors-Richard Romo of Texas, Tom Von Ruden of Oklahoma State, and Wade Bell of Oregon-who got together before...
...news from Viet Nam gave more reason for optimism than pessimism. As one Administration leader after another reported in recent weeks, the U.S. was gaining steadily on the battlefront. The Harris poll showed that the stepped-up bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong were endorsed by 5 out of every 6 Americans. And ratings of the President's own popularity, after hitting a nadir of 46% in May, had curved robustly upward (to 55% ). So why was Lyndon Johnson so out of sorts...