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...line of a contest as far-reaching and as vital as any we have ever waged." But he also went to Asia as an American politician whose party is embroiled in a major campaign, knowing well that the voters' decisions next week will be examined as closely by Ho Chi Minh, looking for indications of U.S. irresolution about the war, as by G.O.P. Chairman Ray Bliss...
...world was quick to react. North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh called the Chinese test a "stimulus to the cause of world peace." United Nations Secretary General U Thant did not quite agree: "Any atomic explosion anywhere is to be regretted." Japan lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense...
...French air force pilots' school and flunked his international-transport pilot's test, Ma has logged something like 4,000 hours in the Laotian air force, most of them by leading daily bomb runs against Communist troops moving toward South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh trail. For all his blustering threats, however, Ma's objectives were limited. Royalist generals, who resented his refusal to let them use his transport planes in their more or less open dealings in the opium trade, had pressured the government to retire him as air force commander and give...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...
...With Ho Chi Minh...