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...Haiphong raids hit two thermal power plants-one barely a mile from the downtown business center, the other 2.1 miles away. Nearly 160 Navy jets took part, swooping off the decks of the attack carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga to strike at noon and again 4½ hours later. Dumping almost 150 tons of bombs on the plants, the strikes destroyed 80% of their generating capacity-and 12% of the North's total power supply-without losing a single plane. As one pilot said on his return to the Kitty Hawk: "There are no lights tonight in Haiphong...
...advocate flat-out U.S. withdrawal, and many (the number is impossible to estimate) perhaps support the U.S. stand without making themselves heard. The war often reduces the divided Protestant witness to hand-wringing statements, such as that of the National Council on December 3, 1965, which alternately stated the hawk and the dove positions: "We hold that within the spectrum of their concern, Christians can and do espouse one or the other of these views, or still other views, and should not have the integrity of their conscience faulted because they...
...success-to convince the world that this is indeed his aim. Abruptly, and to his own surprise, the President last month got an assist from the adversary. By a vituperative rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh displayed unmistakably his own hawk's plumage. Last week U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, long a stringent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, was also rudely rebuffed...
...scramble signal to the Air Force. Reconnaissance of the target and bad weather, which has limited strikes over North Viet Nam since January, held up the attack until last week. Then, as the monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready for what Flight Leader Captain Charles G. Murphy described as "the mission I'd been waiting for, the granddaddy of them all." Coincidentally, Thailand finally made official and public...
...Wilkens, a St. Louis Hawk star said yesterday, "the players are 100 per cent behind the strike threat...