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...Before the Geneva conference of 1954, when Viet Nam was divided into North and South, Ho Chi Minh visited Moscow. The Communists had not yet scored their stunning victory at Dienbienphu and their situation was "very grave," says Khrushchev. When the Russians heard that France proposed the 17th Parallel as the dividing line at the conference, "we gasped with surprise and pleasure. The 17th Parallel was the absolute maximum we would have claimed ourselves...
...distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
...sirens disrupted Hanoi's nights when unarmed U.S. reconnaissance flights triggered radar shields. Suddenly, in the early morning hours, radar screens all over North Viet Nam blossomed in menacing blips. Across communications nets lashed word that waves of U.S. planes were bombing heavily south of the 19th parallel: north of the DMZ, east of the Laotian border. That had happened before in the interim since the bombing halt ?five times, in fact. But this was something far more...
Scores of fighter-bombers were weaving back and forth across North Viet Nam north of the 19th parallel in what appeared to be bewildering bombing patterns. Flares were drifting down to illuminate the vulnerable ships and docks of Haiphong harbor. As North Viet Nam's air-defense commanders opened up with cannon and missilery, MIGs scrambled into action all across the country, and South China also went into a state of advanced military readiness. To many North Vietnamese, it looked as if the U.S. were invading their country. It was 2 a.m. when allied monitors in South Viet Nam heard...
...raid coincided with the bombing strikes south of the 19th parallel in retaliation for the loss of a U.S. RF4 reconnaissance plane over North Viet Nam on Nov. 13. Those bombings were justified on the grounds that Hanoi had violated the "understanding" Washington claims it reached when Lyndon Johnson called a halt to bombing North Viet Nam on Nov. 1, 1968. (The U.S. insists that under the terms of the understanding it has the right to overfly North Viet Nam with unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. Hanoi denies that it agreed to such an arrangement...