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Since the attacks occurred in the midst of a truce to observe the Tet New Year holiday, the U.S. is unlikely to approve any temporary cease-fires in the future. Nor is it likely that Washington will want to risk a bombing pause any time soon. "We Americans will never yield," said Johnson during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the White House. American planes will continue to hit the North until there is "some better sign than these last few days have provided" of Hanoi's willingness to ease...
Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Vietnamese soldiers made a special effort to rejoin their families. Relative visited relative, threading through thousands of firecrackers popping and fizzing in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there...
...Marines expect the attack to come this week or next, at the end of the Tet (lunar new year) ceasefire. The truce began at the end of last week, after five days of intermittent shelling of Khe Sanh by Giap's long guns from North Viet Nam and rockets, mortars and recoilless rifles fired at closer range. The giant U.S. 175-mm. artillery at Camp Carroll and the Rockpile, another Marine base, answered back. U.S. fighter-bombers, many diverted from hitting North Viet Nam, rained down the heaviest explosive loads of the war on the enemy around Khe Sanh...
...military arm reinforcing the diplomatic hand at the bargaining table. Whether or not the Communists were really ready to talk last week (see THE NATION), their soldiers were busy fighting up and down the length of South Viet Nam. Coming in the wake of the New Year's truce, the ferocity of the action was hardly unexpected; both sides always use the few day's respite of truce to position themselves to come out fighting hard. This time the Communists did not even wait for the truce to expire. More than 170 truce violations-and a major Viet...
Apology & Warning. Watching and waiting through the truce period, U.S. pilots pounced on Ho Chi Minh's busy supply routes once the truce expired. The first day's work destroyed or damaged 30 trucks, 70 boats and 80 pieces of rolling stock, including three locomotives. As the week progressed, the fighter-bombers hammered away at bridges close to Hanoi and Haiphong, and hit one supply route within nine miles of the Chinese border. A raid on Haiphong drew an official protest from Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from...