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...contest as far-reaching and as vital as any we have ever waged." But he also went to Asia as an American politician whose party is embroiled in a major campaign, knowing well that the voters' decisions next week will be examined as closely by Ho Chi Minh, looking for indications of U.S. irresolution about the war, as by G.O.P. Chairman Ray Bliss...
...French air force pilots' school and flunked his international-transport pilot's test, Ma has logged something like 4,000 hours in the Laotian air force, most of them by leading daily bomb runs against Communist troops moving toward South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh trail. For all his blustering threats, however, Ma's objectives were limited. Royalist generals, who resented his refusal to let them use his transport planes in their more or less open dealings in the opium trade, had pressured the government to retire him as air force commander and give...
...Minh's army has been trying to mount the attack since July, when the 324B became the first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ. In the beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...
With Ho Chi Minh...