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...that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese leaders themselves expect to be at war with the United States within a year...
...currently approve Lyndon Johnson's handling of the war, v. 66% in December. This does not by any means suggest that the argument will resemble the familiar dove-hawk controversy. Many Republican campaigners will undoubtedly urge intensified bombing of North Viet Nam, particularly "source" targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex, which have been spared on the President's orders. The Administration may also be criticized for not calling up the reserves-or, if they have been mobilized by November, for having done so unnecessarily...
Free-world trade with North Viet Nam has dwindled drastically in the past year, but even a trickle strikes Washington as too much. On White House orders, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced this month that vessels hauling freight to Haiphong would be barred from carrying U.S. Government cargoes anywhere in the world. Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O. maritime unions demanded that such ships be denied entry to U.S. ports. Otherwise, they warned in a tartly worded telegram to President Johnson, waterfront workers in 29 unions would boycott all ships owned by any foreign nation that earns "blood money" by trading...
...formally at war with North Viet Nam and must rely on persuasion rather than force to stop the trade. But the expressions of disapproval-and the high cost of insurance-have had some effect. So far this year, only eight small non-Communist tramps have made the run to Haiphong (v. 32 in the same period last year), mostly under British registry out of Hong Kong. Moreover, the British contend that this trade, while economically negligible, may actually benefit the U.S. "After all," said an English official in Saigon last week, "there are certain intelligence advantages in having a British...
Calm in the Dark. Ky was just as frank in Honolulu with Johnson. He publicly urged the U.S. to bomb the port of Haiphong, insisted Saigon would never negotiate with the Viet Cong, rejected the Geneva accords as a basis for negotiations-all points on which Johnson disagrees with him. "I know," said Ky, "that at times your advisers lose patience with us. But I don't think it is any secret that at times we lose patience with your advisers." It is a frankness the U.S. appreciates and needs in Viet Nam politics-not least because...