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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of raids, Navy and Air Force jets pounded away at the Communists' vital northeast railway that connects Hanoi with Nanning in China's Kwangsi province. Severing the single-line track repeatedly within the 30-mile zone, the planes knocked out the major rail-highway bridge and one of its two bypasses at Lang Son, a dozen miles from the border, and heavily damaged marshalling yards up and down the line. In the first raid, U.S. pilots caught the Vietnamese by surprise, blasted 143 rail cars for the biggest bag yet scored in a single...
Turning the Screw. The raids were part of the Administration's newly ex panded list of Northern targets. Starting with the successful attack a fort night ago against Hanoi's Paul Doumer rail and highway bridge, the missions were planned to apply yet another turn of the screw against North Viet Nam's vital rail system. Though the U.S. has long been attacking the railways south of the buffer zone, Hanoi still imports the vast bulk of its war materiel by train. While petroleum, food and fertilizer imports come in mostly by sea, the rail system...
...Infiltration from North Viet Nam has been held steady at 6,000 to 7,000 a month, and the Communists may at last have reached the "crossover point" where they can no longer adequately cover their losses. Moreover, U.S. bombers have made the Ho Chi Minh trail such a highway of death that the desertion rate for units moving southward has gone up significantly. One former North Vietnamese soldier told his interrogators that his unit left North Viet Nam with 300 men?and arrived in the South with only 30. Eventually, if the U.S. keeps up the pressure, Hanoi...
Square in the Middle. Primary target was a stretch of Route 4, a potholed two-lane highway over which moves most of the food that the Delta now sends to Saigon. Explained Lieut. General Frederick C. Weyand, the U.S. Area Commander: "For every day the road is closed, the price of rice in Saigon goes up 10 piasters [20]." In the past fortnight, the Viet Cong concentrated three hard-core battalions near Route 4 and mined the road eight times, bringing traffic to a virtual stop. The V.C. were obviously trying to push up food prices just as the presidential...
...Hanna, Wyo., with no angry sense of color, he came to Watts in 1957 and was quickly told by new classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes. One of the rioters that the book focuses on is Cotter Williams, 15, who hated the "Whips" (white power structure); when the $16 a month he made...