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...poem? the older man asked. An attempt at a poem, I answered. Then I added: "Ho Chi Minh was a poet, was he not?" "Yes," said the man. "Yes, Ho Chi Minh was a poet...
...efforts to restock its forces in Indochina. Supplies shipped south via the new infiltration routes in Laos and Northern Cambodia should start showing up in South Viet Nam in October, when the rainy season ends. The U.S. has already stepped up B-52 raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Last week there were reports that a sizable force of ARVN troops and U.S. helicopters had been assembled near Kham Duc, a long-abandoned Special Forces camp near the Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there are no plans for a Cambodia-style lunge into Laos...
Barkley showed up late in the evening. "I walked through the plaza," he recalled, "and talked to some of the kids. They were all wiggling with the music and hollering about Ho Chi Minh, and generally acting like perfect asses." Then he overheard an older man giving instructions to a young audience about how to disrupt the proceedings. Citizen Barkley promptly trotted over and told the police, who thanked him warmly...
...endorsed this effort, though it could overtax Saigon's own war effort if carried on too long; U.S. sources note that Hanoi has been sending as many as 3,000 trucks a week down the Ho Chi Minh Trail despite the monsoons, possibly for a major attack somewhere in the northern half of South Viet Nam. For its part, Washington has provided Cambodia with a fairly modest military-aid program of $7,900,000; it will try to increase that to perhaps $25 million over the next six months by diverting unused funds from other aid programs...
...yawn, to explain that the U. S. is only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then...