Word: haiphong
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...bombing of Hanoi-Haiphong POL areas was long overdue. Had we done this months ago, or even two years ago, many lives would undoubtedly have been spared. The time has come for the U.S. to stop playing a cat-and-mouse game with the North Vietnamese; we must show our teeth, since this seems to be the only language they understand...
Even before the first U.S. bombing raids on oil depots at Hanoi and Haiphong June 29, North Viet Nam's leaders threatened to stage "war criminal" show trials of captured American airmen. Last week, after a strident propaganda barrage from Hanoi, that threat seemed likely to become reality...
Wilson already had come out against the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong oil installations. With Anglo-American relations at stake, he would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
Next day 32 Laborites abstained, but none dared vote against a government motion supporting the U.S. in Viet Nam -short of its bombing of the oil-storage areas in Hanoi and Haiphong. Wilson's cause was helped by the dramatic news that on July 16 he would be off to Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders about peace in Southeast Asia. Tactically, the announcement served to neutralize the dissidents. But Wilson has tried before and failed to persuade the Communists to talk about peace in Viet Nam. This time the pressure on him will be greater than ever...
Academic. He does not question President Johnson's "painful, consistent" desire to avoid military defeat while "resisting proposals to enlarge the conflict." And though he wrote his book before the U.S. struck the petroleum targets at Haiphong and Hanoi, he foresaw that the President would find it necessary to move "imperceptibly" in the direction of more blows against North Viet...