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...dates, Hanoi's ambassadors in Prague and Peking both announced that the trials will be held. Toward this end, Hanoi radio reported the establishment of "a committee to investigate war crimes of U.S. imperialists in Viet Nam." As for the ultimate fate of the airmen, Ho Chi Minh sent a message to Socialist Norman Thomas last week promising "humanitarian" treatment, raising the possibility that the pilots' lives would be spared in a propaganda show...
...Minh's air defenders struck back last week. Eleven U.S. warplanes were shot down over North Viet Nam by antiaircraft batteries, MIG-17 jets, and a record barrage of 74 SAM missiles. A sleek new MIG-21 also showed up in North Vietnamese skies with air-to-air missiles that barely missed three American raiders. It was the heaviest week's action of an expanding air war, and it brought to 303 the total number of U.S. airplanes that have now been lost over Viet...
...kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter. "I'd like to see him start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply line becomes, and the less there is that reaches the South." Their cameras are set to fire automatically when the flash cartridges...
...strikes. Even so, the heavy attack continued. "The air was chopping them to pieces, but they kept coming at us," said Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty. All but ten men of McGinty's platoon had been wounded before a relief company arrived to pull them out. Ho Chi Minh's men got off even worse. Napalm, McGinty said, "cooked them" in the formerly Marine foxholes they had taken over, and at least 200 were killed...
...little wonder, then, that many of the trappings of American life-and some of its altitudes-have spread around the globe. Still, Ho Chi Minh certainly does not smoke American cigarettes because they are American ("He didn't change to a French cigarette, did he?" crowed a State Department aide); like millions of others who have made U.S. cigarettes the most universally preferred, he smokes them simply because they are better than most of what is available. Coca-Cola is the universal symbol of Americanization, but it was the distribution, merchandising and advertising techniques of the American company...