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Beyond all doubt the heart of the matter is the calculated murder of 100 civilians weekly for the past 500 weeks. How incredibly naive to term the terror of the Mao-Moscow mercenary, Ho, a civil war because he has hired his murderers from among the Vietnamese...
They may have been going all out to refute the contention that airpower has its limits in Viet Nam. Or demonstrating to the skeptical back home that there is no stalemate over North Viet Nam. Or warning Ho Chi Minh on the eve of the South Vietnamese elections that a willingness to negotiate should not be mistaken for any weakening of resolve. Whatever the reason, American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements...
...work capped the busiest month of the air campaign against the North. Flying some 150 missions a day, U.S. pilots hit North Viet Nam harder than ever before in the 21-year-old air war. The result was a growing confidence among airmen that at last they are hurting Ho measurably and meaningfully. Said the director of intelligence for the Seventh Air Force in Saigon, Brigadier General J. M. Philpott: "We're really doing...
Attacking from China. For all this harassment, enough supplies keep coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail to fuel the Communist war in the South. In clear terms, Mc-Namara explained why. North Viet Nam has, he said, such a highly diversified transportation system, ranging from sampans to bicycles, that even at the present level of bombing, "the volume of traffic it is now required to carry, in relation to its capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese...
...Next day she invited Don to entertain a swinging party of 35 at her rented home in Kahala. So swinging, Ho says, that he pitched the Capri-pants-clad hostess into her own swimming pool...