Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silenced by Events. For William Childs Westmoreland, 53, the visit to the U.S. coincided with a new notch-up in the war: the bombing of half a dozen formerly proscribed targets in the North, including two MIG bases. The Administration, which previously had minimized each increase in the war effort, now clearly signaled its determination to put every possible pressure on Hanoi. Among its critics, there was growing apprehension over the war's direction, duration and denouement-a fear that the U.S. and its antagonists were swiftly approaching the point where a little slip could mean...
...Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital, a 738-ft. bridge on the Canal des Rapides across which all the traffic from Communist China and 30% of the North's war materiel are conveyed, and two of the six airbases that accommodate Hanoi's 120-MIG air force (see THE WORLD...
...strikes at the MIG bases, however, illustrated Johnson's peculiar ability to add to the onus. Barely three days before the bases were bombed, Illinois' Republican Senator Charles H. Percy was assured by both the State and Defense Departments that they would not be touched. Moreover, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had said only a few weeks earlier that "under present circumstances-and this belief can change as time goes by-we think the loss in U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policy than they would, were we to attack those airfields." McNamara...
...wake of Westmoreland's visit, Administration spokesmen are pointedly leaving the door open to the possibility of further air raids. Among the possible targets are the remaining MIG bases, particularly Phuc Yen; two big power plants near Hanoi; and, above all, the Haiphong waterfront, through which 70% of the North's war supplies are funneled...
...Rear Admiral David C. Richardson, whose Task Force 77 carriers launched the jets, "will show some people that their sanctuaries are not what they think they are." A few off-limits areas remain nonetheless-Haiphong's port facilities and its huge cement plant, Hanoi's industries, the MIG airfields and the dikes that channel water to the Red River rice bowl...