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...more than a month, U.S. intelligence agencies have been persistently reporting that the North Vietnamese were sending masses of troops and weapons down the Ho Chi Minh Trail toward South Viet Nam. U.S. officials estimated that since Jan. 1, the Communists had moved some 40,000 men plus 300 tanks, 150 heavy artillery pieces, 160 antiaircraft guns and 300 trucks down the trail. The only important change from pre-cease-fire days, in fact, seemed to be that the North Vietnamese were driving southward in broad daylight, since they were no longer fearful of U.S. air strikes. The trail, says...
...former French colony, Laos drifted into independence after World War II, under the custody of a fractious royal family. The two chief rivals: Prince Souvanna Phouma, who became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...
...vicarious heroism repels me. What kind of person would feel no unease as he remembered his village burning to the ground? How many Vietnamese mothers felt no qualms when American bombers killed their sons? If all Vietnamese combined the best qualities of Edith Cavell, Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh, maybe their revolution would be successful enough to outweigh the individual tragedies of 1.6 million dead, at least for people--if there are any--personally untouched by the war. But however appalling they found the prospect of indefinite misrule by the United States and its Vietnamese collaborators, it seems unlikely...
...already summer at home, the sweet jasmine must be in bloom again," began a letter, never posted, from Nguyen Van Minh, a schoolteacher, worried that his girl friend might be seeing another man. "Do you tell him you love him the way you told me, lying there under the trees by the river, do you remember, Hoa? Your long hair brushed my face, my golden summer butterfly. Maybe you should get married. The enemy is very barbarous...This terrible war makes so many strange thoughts race through my head. I would like to jump straight up for thousands of miles...
...hottest there last week. Thailand-based B-52 bombers, relieved of their duties in Viet Nam, concentrated their power on Communist forces in Laos. The strikes were aimed at suspected concentrations of North Vietnamese troops. For their part, the North Vietnamese pulled troops off the Ho Chi Minh Trail and arranged them in offensive positions against the Royal Laotian Army. The most serious threat was to the junction of Thakhek, which was encircled by nine battalions of Communist troops...