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...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
Last week's raids left only five major targets of military value still unscathed. They were the Gia Lam airbase near Hanoi; the Phuc Yen airbase, 15 miles northeast of the capital; the railway terminal and power plant in Lao Cai, a North Vietnamese town that sits directly on the Chinese border; the piers at the auxiliary port of Hon Gai; and, of course, the docks at Haiphong. But unless the U.S.'s new choke-and-destroy air strategy is suddenly curtailed, all those objectives, except perhaps the Haiphong docks, are soon likely to feel the blast...
...petroleum dumps) to warrant the risk of U.S. lives; other potential targets, such as factories in downtown areas, are ruled out on humanitarian grounds. Of the major targets not yet hit, many will probably be bombed in time. The most likely remaining targets: the power station and railyards at Lao Cai, an important supply link with China; three MIG fields near Hanoi and one at Haiphong; and the dock facilities at Hon Gai, the only unscathed port...
...soon became a masterpiece of confusion. Lao air force planes arrived and began bombing both sides; Lao river boats sprayed machine-gun bullets with a fine lack of discrimination. When it was all over, Chan's forces had 82 dead, the Chinese soldiers some 200. Two Thais who had stopped to watch the action from across the river were killed, and the Laotian infantry counted several wounded. A goodly portion of the opium mysteriously disappeared, and has yet to be found...
...relationship between the Liberation Army and the political activities of the National Liberation Front is equally tightly controlled. The power-wielding part of the Front is the People's Revolutionary Party, the southern branch of Ho's Lao Dong Party that the Hanoi journal Hoc Tap calls "the soul of the N.L.F." Its five regional committees, .supervising the five areas into which COSVN has divided South Viet Nam, are each headed by a man with military experience. From province to district to village committee, and on down to hamlets where everyone has both a military and civilian...