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...Filipinos when it is so badly needed right here in Arkansas." A few simple name changes and he could have been Martin Luther King blaming the cost of warfare in Viet Nam for starving the Great Society at home. Aguinaldo himself seemed to be little different from Ho Chi Minh as he pinned his hopes on the dissenters' pressure. "The continuance of the fighting," protested General Henry Lawton before the guerrillas killed him, "is chiefly due to reports that are sent out from America." Had Senator Fulbright been around he would have found reason to worry. McKinley...
...Strategy. The terrain looked promising to the North Vietnamese. Near Khe Sanh, a shaft of the Ho Chi Minh trail comes out of Laos, headed by three hills that form an arrow. Hill 861 is the tip, aimed east into the heart of troubled Quang Tri province, around which some 35,000 Communist troops are drawn. Hill 881 North and Hill 881 South form the arrow's flukes. An area of choice coffee plantations and twelve-foot-high elephant grass, the Khe Sanh Valley was defended by a company of U.S. Marines guarding its airstrip and three companies...
...Administration has been stepping up its military pressure on the North since February, when Ho Chi Minh rejected all peace proposals in starkly uncompromising terms. The U.S. sowed mines in the mouths of North Viet Nam's rivers, lobbed shells across the DMZ, ordered Navy vessels to interdict coastal targets and local shipping in Operation Sea Dragon. Two weeks ago, President Johnson gave Navy jets the "go" signal to attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet...
...abducted for political motives. What political motives? They are not sure, but feel that he may be the prisoner of Communists who wish to use him as some sort of intermediary or in a propaganda ploy. They point out, for example, that Thompson knew many of Ho Chi Minh's agents at the time of the Japanese defeat in World...
Died. Archbishop Le Huu Tu, 73, Roman Catholic Vietnamese religious leader and nationalist, who in the late 1940s formed his own paramilitary force to fight with Ho Chi Minh against the French, then in 1954 fled South, where he fought the Communists and, despite failing health, devoted himself to resettling and assisting the 1,000,000 refugees from the North who followed his example; of cancer; in Saigon...