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...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 MIG fields near Hanoi and one at Haiphong; and the dock facilities at Hon Gai, the only unscathed port...
...diminishing heartland along the Red River once housed 60% of North Viet Nam's economic base. Eleven of the nation's power plants, which produce 80% of the country's electricity, have been struck-some many times. The only large power plant left is Lao Cai, which is off limits because it stands on the border with Red China. U.S. jets recently destroyed the Haiphong plant that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced...
...equally savage battle was in progress. Moving into the "Twin-River Complex" of Chuong Thien province, a battalion of South Vietnamese infantrymen walked into a trap. One company was hit as its American-piloted helicopters put down in the paddy-and-palmetto plains between the Nuoc Trong and Cai Lon rivers. Four "slicks" (troop-carrying choppers) were shot out of the sky by Chinese-built 7.9-mm. antiaircraft cannons; another four "gunships" (helicopters carrying rockets and machine guns for close support) dropped like stones. Moments later, a Medevac chopper was downed-the ninth helicopter to fall in as many minutes...
Interpreting Unity. Obviously recalling Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's Cai ro visit only six months ago, Khrushchev tried hard to sound every bit as revolutionary as Peking. He attacked Israel as "an agent of imperialism," supported the Arab policy on Jordan water, tore into the British and their position at Aden...
Shortly after midnight, the Reds hit Cai Nuoc directly. Pouring mortar shells and recoilless rifle fire in the perimeter system of defensive bunkers, the Viet Cong breached the front gate of the city's major outpost, ran from bunker to bunker lobbing in grenades and shooting the defenders in the back. The fight lasted for only 35 minutes, but the Reds occupied the town for the next 17 hours. It was a bloodbath. When reinforcements finally appeared, they found a heap of 50 mutilated bodies, including women and children, which the Reds had set afire...