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...induce Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that pressure until the day when Hanoi unequivocally signals its willingness to negotiate on bona fide terms...
...little of value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet...
...fighter-bombers on their runs over the North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...accordance with Nixon's last will and testament, he is buried in the demilitarized zone of Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh break into tears at the funeral, each offering his handkerchief to the other, and in the grief of the occasion they pledge eternal peace...
...Ho's reaction underscores the difficulty of ever getting the Communists to any conference table. In fact, an increasing number of experts think that the war could end without any formal negotiations at all. Writing in the current Foreign Affairs, former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, now president of the Ford Foundation, speculates that the Communists may quietly call it quits once they become convinced that U.S. power and perseverance will deny them victory. "If the Communists do decide that their present purposes exceed their capacity," says Bundy, "may they not prefer a private decision to a public admission...