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Inescapable Curtains. All told, last week 13 U.S. planes were shot down over the North-a new record week's loss, bringing to 335 the number of American craft downed by Ho Chi Minh's fire. Seven of last week's total were felled in one day, the most so far in any 24-hour period.* One reason for the mounting air casualties is new tactics by the Communists with their surface-to-air missiles. Prior to the Hanoi-Haiphong oil raids, the SAMs came up only one or two at a time. Now they are being...
...Ho for the Open Road...
Last week the peace was broken. On four separate days, American warplanes swooped in to bomb the demilitarized zone-and the antiaircraft barrage that greeted them did not come from Communist carbines and pistols. The whole western section of the DMZ was alive with North Vietnamese troops, elements of Ho Chi Minn's ill-fated 324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints...
...that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded 41 smaller fuel depots, bridges, flak sites and more than 230 barges...
Even if such atrocities were committed in the heat of battle, they cast a dark shadow across Ho's propaganda claim to a "humanitarian" role...