Word: petroleum
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Chop & Smash. The Cam Pha raid, and raids on five other previously forbidden places in recent weeks, reduced the number of untouched targets in North Viet Nam to a mere 46. Most of those 46 are too insignificant (small factories, pint-sized petroleum dumps) to warrant the risk of U.S. lives; other potential targets, such as factories in downtown areas, are ruled out on humanitarian grounds. Of the major targets not yet hit, many will probably be bombed in time. The most likely remaining targets: the power station and railyards at Lao Cai, an important supply link with China; three...
Oddly enough, the three networks did relatively poorly: while grossing $904 million from time and program sales, they netted only $79 million before taxes, a mere 8.7% of the gross-compared with such corporations as Amerada Petroleum (49%). One reason is the high cost of filming documentaries and maintaining big news-gathering organizations. Another is the higher cost of developing new entertainment programs; the networks spend $15 million to $24 million a year replacing shows that have flopped...
...Defense Secretary, U.S. fighter-bombers averaged 13,000 sorties a month over the North -75% of them directed against lines of communication and goods moving over them. "In addition, we have struck approximately 1,900 fixed targets in North Viet Nam, including 57 bridges, 50 major railyards, troop barracks, petroleum storage tanks and power plants...
...necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over 8,400 tons a day by road, rail and waterway." McNamara noted that the U.S. had long ago destroyed Haiphong's petroleum off-loading facilities. As a result, Hanoi now unloads petroleum from tankers sitting offshore. Barges float the fuel in by night, and Hanoi has "no evidence of an oil shortage...
Less than 20: ammunition dumps, petroleum storage areas, power plants, ports and ferry slips...