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...President Johnson, U Thant and Ho Chi Minh. Each for different reasons. I. S. MENON, M.D. Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Serious Degradation. Brown, 39, told aviation writers in Washington that the bombing of the North has two principal objectives: 1) "to make it as difficult and as costly as possible" for Hanoi to support troops in the South; and 2) to persuade Ho Chi Minh "that the peace table is preferable to continuation of a war he cannot win." Brown marshaled an impressive array of statistics to prove that the bombing has caused "serious manpower, supply and morale problems" for Hanoi. From March 1965 through last September, said Brown, U.S. bombers have caused a "serious degradation of the North Vietnamese...
Whether it is an official's boozy binge or a black-market expose, every scandal in South Viet Nam is aired for all the world to see. North of the 17th parallel, however, Hanoi seldom publishes a bad word about how things are going in the land of Ho. When a shortcoming is publicized it is generally done in the way sins are cited in a revival meeting: to urge the faithful on to ever-greater exertions. Judging from some recent Red sermonizing, Saigon has no monopoly on errant human nature...
Satisfying as it is to Saigon to know that Ho has problems remarkably akin to South Viet Nam's own, Western analysts are more intrigued by a spate of recent Red articles and broadcasts dealing with the progress of the war. The conflict has gone progressively worse for the Communists ever since the U.S. arrived in force last year. Only now does Hanoi seem to be groping for a new theology to sustain the Viet Cong in the face of continued reverses...
...Bikinis Ho. The jet rush is on, and no letup is in sight. The number of passengers through Honolulu airport has more than doubled in six years, and airline executives foresee an even greater escalation after the 490-passenger "Jumbo" Boeing jets start to fly in 1969. Some visitors flying tourist class pay only $100 for the five-hour flight from...