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Every day, at the press briefing at MACV Headquarters in Saigon, a public relations officer pins little blue paper bombs on a big map of North Viet Nam to show where American planes have struck. Every day last week, the blue bombs all but covered the area known as Ho Chi Minh's Panhandle...
...Panhandle, located immediately above the demilitarized zone that marks the border with South Viet Nam, is a long, narrow strip wedged between the mountains and the sea. Lined by roads, railroads and inland waterways, it is Ho's principal supply route to the Communist troops in the south. It is also the prime target of U.S. air raiders, whose goal is to stop the supplies...
...installed a loudspeaker across a canal from Saigon's warehouse district, began to blare out attacks against them. Another Viet Cong detachment invaded a village ten miles from Saigon, spent the night replacing the government's neatly printed election slogans with their own: "Welcome the Ho Chi Minh Regime...
While Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz was getting the heave-ho in Iraq, the Middle East's tiny, oil-soaked sheikdom of Abu Dhabi was going through a similar-though less surprising-upheaval. Sheik Shakhbout bin Sultan, 61, who had been in power longer (since 1928) than any other Middle East ruler, was suddenly shipped off to nearby Bahrain Island one day last week, and his youngest brother, 46-year-old Sheik Zaid bin Sultan, became the sheikdom's new headman...
Baron Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie was using 15 minutes of state-controlled French television prime time to praise "my friend Ho Chi Minh" for canceling war-crimes trials of American pilots in Hanoi. It sounded as if the 66-year-old baron, Interior Minister in President Charles de Gaulle's first postwar Cabinet and a leader of Gaullism's left wing today, just might be echoing his master's loudly repeated opposition to U.S. policy in Viet...