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...Granddaddy. The Pentagon had long wanted approval to bomb Thai Nguyen. But not until the failure of peace probes during the Tet holiday truce did Lyndon Johnson give the scramble signal to the Air Force. Reconnaissance of the target and bad weather, which has limited strikes over North Viet Nam since January, held up the attack until last week. Then, as the monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready...
...crackdown ended-once and for all-the delicate truce organized by Onganía and the unions shortly after he seized power in a coup last year. Under the truce, Onganía had promised that the government would keep out of the unions if the unions kept out of politics. Onganía also promised to hold down the country's soaring cost of living (up 30% in 1966) and to impose some belt tightening and other much needed reforms on the country. To give his program some grandeur, he even borrowed Charles de Gaulle's slogan...
...troops in the South, the U.S. possesses a large arsenal of tactics and weaponry as yet unused against Hanoi. Last week the U.S. introduced three new forms of military pressure against the enemy's supply lines. This was the response to the Communist use of the Tet holiday truce last month to funnel some 25,000 tons of war materiel southward. Each of the three new moves was carefully tailored for a specific and precise military mission...
...Anyone listening for bubbles of peace [Feb. 10] while the Viet Cong move 30,000 tons of materiel and commit 370 truce violations is a bubblehead. HARRY PETER KUPIEC Baltimore...
...Junction City is one way of curbing the Viet Cong. Less costly and far healthier for all concerned are the psychological-warfare techniques aimed at luring Communist defectors back to Saigon's side (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week the massive "psywar" campaign launched during the four-day Tet truce began to pay off. An estimated 1,000 Viet Cong became Hoi Chanh (returnees) during the week after the holiday began, a record for any week in the war. "More importantly," says U.S. Psy-Warrior M. L. Osborne, "we're finally getting a few oldtimers-men in their...