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...President Johnson, U Thant and Ho Chi Minh. Each for different reasons. I. S. MENON, M.D. Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Serious Degradation. Brown, 39, told aviation writers in Washington that the bombing of the North has two principal objectives: 1) "to make it as difficult and as costly as possible" for Hanoi to support troops in the South; and 2) to persuade Ho Chi Minh "that the peace table is preferable to continuation of a war he cannot win." Brown marshaled an impressive array of statistics to prove that the bombing has caused "serious manpower, supply and morale problems" for Hanoi. From March 1965 through last September, said Brown, U.S. bombers have caused a "serious degradation of the North Vietnamese...
...equals in firepower the South Vietnamese force that has opposed them up to now. Principal Red sanctuaries are the mangrove swamps along the coast, the Plain of Reeds, which is alternately under monsoon waters or a brick-hard bed of dried mud in the dry season, and the U Minh "Forest of Darkness" infested by poisonous snakes and king-size stinging ants as well as by the Viet Cong...
About a third of the film reflects no political bias: shoppers in a busy department store, workers in a modern textile factory. About a third of it is warmly pro-Ho: President Ho Chi Minh himself appears only in stills, but the movie offers an interview showing Premier Pham Van Dong as a merry little grig who seems about to warble Whistle While You Work. There is also a sequence in which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third...
...world was quick to react. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh called the Chinese test a "stimulus to the cause of world peace." United Nations Secretary General U Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense...