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...daily harassment and destruction of the North's war machine. The University of London's P. J. Honey, an expert on North Viet Nam, believes the North is in dire need of just such a respite. Though no one is predicting the imminent collapse of Ho Chi Minh's regime, the North is obviously under severe strain. In the nearly three years since the bombings began, Honey says, there has been a marked erosion of morale among the North Vietnamese. "The people can see no letup as long as the bombing continues," he argues. "There are doubts...
Apology & Warning. Watching and waiting through the truce period, U.S. pilots pounced on Ho Chi Minh's busy supply routes once the truce expired. The first day's work destroyed or damaged 30 trucks, 70 boats and 80 pieces of rolling stock, including three locomotives. As the week progressed, the fighter-bombers hammered away at bridges close to Hanoi and Haiphong, and hit one supply route within nine miles of the Chinese border. A raid on Haiphong drew an official protest from Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from...
...balance and killed more than 175 Communist soldiers and captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that Ho Chi Minh does not regard the adventures of Buz Sawyer-who helped destroy a SAM missile site in the North-as either fanciful or funny...
...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
Reports of so much Communist activity on the periphery of South Viet Nam in a single week naturally raised considerable speculation that either Ho Chi Minh, who made a rare public appearance two weeks ago on North Viet Nam's Resistance Day, or Lyndon Johnson, or both, was on the verge of widening the war. As long as, the Communists can move supplies more or less freely through Laos and Cambodia and retreat there to lick their wounds, the U.S. will find it difficult to drive them from the field completely. Nor will the "McNamara Wall" now being built along...