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...disclosed in Senate testimony before the Committee on November 18, 1970, by Brig. Gen. William John Evans, though the details of the diameter and length were not revealed. This pipeline would appear to have played an important part in the North Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, supplying an estimated 3,000 six-wheel heavy Russian trucks with fuel. The Air Force disclosed that within the last two and one-half years the portion of the trail open to trucks in the dry season has been extended from 350 to 1,550 miles...
After several days of relative quiet, fighting has began again near Sepone on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U.S. sources reported heavy North Vietnamese artillery and tank attacks at Lolo, a fire support base nine miles southeast of Sepone. One American helicopter was reported shot down, and several others hit. Helicopter crewmen said that they were forced by heavy ground fire to drop supplies while hovering five or six feet above the base...
THREE weeks after the attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself...
...were apparently seeking not only further disruption of the trail but also a badly needed military and psychological triumph. With a visible victory, some critics noted, the allies could call the whole operation a success and then call it off. What about the talk of severing the Ho Chi Minh Trail? "To really cut the trail," said a U.S. officer, "you would have to have ARVN stretched from one Laotian border to the other with their arms linked." Nevertheless, most estimates indicate that truck movements along the trail have already been halved...
...sometimes deliberate, sometimes unintentional, has not ended. Two weeks ago, at a press conference called to justify the incursion into Laos, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Lieut. General John W. Vogt Jr. displayed a hunk of the pipeline that carries gas from North Viet Nam down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They implied that it had been seized by the South Vietnamese during the current drive into Laos. Last week the Pentagon admitted that the piping had actually been brought back by South Vietnamese commandos after an earlier, unannounced raid. It "probably would have been better," Laird acknowledged...