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Into Washington this week flies C. K. Yen, 61, vice president, premier and, most important, chief economic planner of the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan. Within the fortnight following he will pay calls on President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, businessmen and Chinese communities from Cape Kennedy to San Francisco. Remarkably, he seeks no financial handouts of any sort. But, he admits in a modest way, he would indeed be pleased by recognition of the dramatic fact that Taiwan has become a model for Asian economic development...
...wake of Westmoreland's visit, Administration spokesmen are pointedly leaving the door open to the possibility of further air raids. Among the possible targets are the remaining MIG bases, particularly Phuc Yen; two big power plants near Hanoi; and, above all, the Haiphong waterfront, through which 70% of the North's war supplies are funneled...
...permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly three-fourths of the North's 120 MIG fighters...
When the weather cleared in the Red River delta to the north, seven flights of American fighter-bombers hammered the Ha Gia fuel dump 14 miles outside of Hanoi and only three miles from Phuc Yen, North Viet Nam's largest airbase. It was the fourth raid on Ha Gia in two months and served notice on Hanoi that the U.S. would continue blasting strategic targets near the capital, despite the recent international uproar (TIME, Dec. 23) triggered by North Viet Nam's discredited charges that the U.S. was bombing residential areas inside Hanoi itself...