Word: minh
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What, in fact, were the attacks all about? In part, they reflected concern about a recent and rapid military buildup by the North Vietnamese. U.S. air operations over the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos had been severely cramped by a formidable North Vietnamese air defense effort (TIME, Jan. 3). In Laos and Cambodia, government troops were already reeling in the face of an unusually early and vigorous dry-season offensive by the enemy. U.S. military men in Saigon expect that offensive to spread to South Viet Nam, perhaps when Tet arrives next month...
...Hanoi well knew, the pilots were casualties of a fierce but little-noticed air war that has boiled up rapidly-not over North Viet Nam but over the Communist infiltration routes into Laos and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into South Viet Nam and Cambodia. In one 27-hour period last week, four Phantoms ran into fatal trouble over Laos. One was downed by ground fire; two ran out of fuel while trying to evade missiles and flak along the North Vietnamese border; the fourth was destroyed by a missile-armed MIG-21-the first kill by a North...
When the monsoon skies cleared a month or so ago, the infiltration and the Laotian air war started up again with dry-season intensity. This time, however, the Communists were ready with a vastly improved air-defense setup. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, once a relatively safe run for U.S. pilots, has become a gauntlet of fire that bristles with a variety of antiaircraft weapons. Overlooking the trail from the North Vietnamese border are 22 SAM-2 battalions with more than 130 launchers; their 30-mile-range missiles pose a serious threat to nimble fighters as well as lumbering...
...considered to have been proved not only effective but essential in military terms, and it continues to have a devastating impact on civilian life in Indochina. Because of new techniques, including low-level "saturation" attacks, the effectiveness of airpower in stopping the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail has risen from a dismal 15% to a remarkable 85% over the past two years. Close air support, moreover, has saved Cambodia's plucky army from disaster in any number of battles...
Weather people tried to 'smash the state' by breaking windows in cut-rate department stores in Chicago. PL continued to come up with gems of analysis; they attributed the hardhat attack on the peace demonstrators as provoked by the demonstrators' support for Ho Chi Minh--who the hardhats knew to be a sell-out because he was negotiating at Paris...