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...visitors report that the most visibly active man in Hanoi these days is Premier Pham Van Dong, 60, who runs North Viet Nam on a day-to-day basis for Ho Chi Minh. Neither Dong nor Ho seems likely to relax many of the arrangements necessitated by the bombing. They cannot, of course, be certain that the raids will not resume...
...sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
Arsonists in Pique. The U Minh Dark Forest has served as a refuge for pirates, fugitives and guerrillas throughout Vietnamese history. Crisscrossed with hidden canals and with vegetation so thick it has resisted all attempts at defoliation, the 1,550-sq. mi. U Minh is a tangled swampland crawling with snakes, boars, tigers-and virtually untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest...
...monumental five-week fire that, as An Xuyen Province Pacification Chief William Barrett said, was the result of "a set of circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts...
Ominous Threat. Chanting their war cry, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh!", students, many of whom wore protective helmets and carried heavy clubs, went on rampages in virtually every major German city. Almost everywhere they went, they blockaded and sometimes stoned the local printing plants of conservative Publisher Axel Springer, whose newspapers, notably the mass-circulation Bild-Zeitung, have denounced their restive leftist tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every...