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Whether or not the North Vietnamese have come to Paris to make peace ultimately, it is clear that for the time being they are relentlessly determined to raise the level of fighting in South Viet Nam. More North Vietnamese men and materiel are flowing down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the southern battlefields than at any time since the war began-perhaps as many as 30,000 a month v. 6,000 monthly a year ago. With a ruthless disregard for civilian lives, the Communists, in almost daily rocket attacks and periodic, suicidal infantry thrusts, have brought the fighting...
Hard-Driving & Tough. Yet another shift in the tempo if not the direction of the talks may have been presaged by the arrival in Paris of Le Duc Tho, who ranks seventh in the North's all-powerful Communist Politburo and is the most important party theoretician after Ho Chi Minh himself. Born in Tonkin, Tho helped Ho found the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1929, served long sentences at penal labor under the French, and lived for many years in the South. Harddriving, ascetic and tough, Tho is believed to have purged the party in South Viet...
...flow of North Vietnamese men and materiel into South Viet Nam is no easy task. The most telling evidence arrives at the Pentagon and the White House in the form of sharp, 9-in.-square photographs ferried by Air Force courier planes from Asia each day. The pictures, showing Ho's men on the move, are the product of the most sustained, highly sophisticated aerial surveillance in military history...
...photo interpreters, or PIs, scan it for hours, looking for the smallest telltale detail: a ladder left at a cave entrance, a small dot of light that might be a campfire, vehicle tracks around a supposedly downed bridge. "It's all a battle of wits between us and Ho's people," says an officer...
...President's words were almost a paraphrase of a statement issued last week by the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Viet Nam, a centrist group that includes former Senator Paul Douglas and ex-Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman. Noting that Ho Chi Minh considers negotiations "another weapons system," the committee cautioned that "impatience may be our deadliest enemy...