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...nearly a year, while Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara agonized over whether to step up the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam, one presidential adviser consistently argued that the bombing of the petroleum depots around Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part...
Last week Navy jets from the carrier Hancock went back to hit again Haiphong's major oil depot, a repeat of the raid that fortnight ago signaled significant new pressures on the enemy. At the time, reconnaissance indicated that 80% of the targets had been destroyed. When the roiling smoke cleared, the damage turned out to be closer to 30% . So the Navy went back, and for good measure, Navy and Air Force planes at week's end hit fuel dumps 35 miles north of Hanoi and 43 miles south east of Vinh. En route, Skyhawks and Intruders...
Shortly after the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings, a corner of the Adams-for-Senate office in Boston debated whether or not their candidate should spearhead a sit-in at the Federal Building to protest the new escalation...
...ballot. Probably the major factor affecting how well he does in the primary will be the progress of the war during the next two months. Right now, according to the latest (July 11) Louis Harris poll, the Administration is riding high. But public support for the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings rests on a hope that they will bring peace. Assuming this not to be the case, the current enthusiasm is likely to dampen somewhat by the middle of September...
...North, Craig said, won't help the Viet Cong. What bothers him more are the reports that from two to six civilians are killed for every Viet Cong on our regular bombing runs in the South. Craig added that it was perfectly possible that our bombing Hanoi and Haiphong had simply entrenched the resistance of the North Vietnamese. More crucial is whether we really know what we would negotiate for. If U.S. terms are a coalition government, Craig said, than the Viet Cong should be perfectly willing to negotiate with us because it would be virtually impossible to keep them...