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...tons of bombs, the greatest amount of tonnage ever concentrated on such a small sector. Even so, U.S. Air Force generals in Saigon concede that, because of poor visibility, the U.S. is able to detect only about 20% of the supplies being trucked down the Ho Chi Minh Trail for the buildup around Khe Sanh. As a result, the U.S. has resorted to saturation bombing of suspected supply areas that sometimes turn out to be ammunition and gasoline caches but are frequently only empty jungle...
...acceptable elsewhere in the world, but they are practically sacriligious in West Berlin, whose citizens know they owe their freedom to American determination to keep them free. Thus last week, when 10,000 leftist students marched through the streets carrying Communist banners, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh" and crying their hatred of the "Amis," the city's reaction was immediate and visceral. Spurred by angry newspaper editorials, Mayor Klaus Schutz called West Berliners out for a giant pro-American demonstration that would serve as "an answer to the radicals and rowdies in our city...
...Among these four, we met and talked with two of them. Thich Tri Quang, the militant Buddhist leader, perhaps one of the most important of the Buddhist leaders in South Vietnam, has been arrested. We saw him just before the attacks; we saw one of his colleagues, Thich Tinh Minh, just after the attacks...
During the attacks themselves the South Vietnamese government announced that An Quang pagoda where Thich Tri Quang had been living just on the outskirts of Cholon was being used as a command post by the V.C. Thich Tinh Minh said it's absolutely absurd...
...Cambodia, volatile Prince Norodom Sihanouk declared "civil war" on local Viet Minh and Communist infiltrators from Thailand, who are raising havoc in Battambang province, and accused the Communists of tying up with the subversive Thai Patriotic Front to cause trouble. Normally a soft-pedaler of anti-Communist alarm, Sihanouk finally seems to have, recognized the root of much of his trouble-at least until he changes his mind again. Already besieged by North Vietnamese troops who use his country as sanctuary, he now faces a second Communist threat. The Prince attacked the "global strategy of Asian Communism," crying...