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Nixon said Abrams had further reported to him yesterday that 55 per centof the trucking traffic coming into the south from the Ho Chi Minh trail had been obstructed...
Fighting continued in southern Lactian jungles where 16,000 South Vietnamese troops are attempting to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail North Vietnamese supply line...
Despite the reported 50 per cent reduction of North Vietnamese traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail, another American source said, "Traffic has been slowed a little due to the South Vietnamese offensive, but I don't think they're ever going to cut the trail. You'd have to put up a fence all the way across Laos...
When the allies invaded Cambodia last spring, exuberant South Vietnamese units thrust 24 miles into the Parrot's Beak area in the very first day. Last week, 14 days after the first ARVN troops pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans...
Trouble starts when Arthur's son Simon skips to Canada to avoid the draft. A committed member of the counterculture, Simon has already earned the clan's enmity by sending a condolence letter to Ho Chi Minh at about the same time that Anna's boy was killed in Viet Nam. As retribution, Arthur is told to fly to Montreal and shoot his son. He has no intention of doing so, but out of cowardice makes the trip. On his return he is astonished to learn that Anna has been blown up by a bomb...