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...Hanoi. "The evidence available to this Government," said Lyndon Johnson, "indicates only continuing hostility and aggressiveness in Hanoi, and an insistence on the abandonment of South Viet Nam to Communist takeover." In his latest and strongest rejection of Washington's peace bid, North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh last week sent a letter to other Communist capitals denouncing the U.S. effort as an "impudent threat" and demanding that the Hanoi-sponsored National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political facade, be recognized "as the sole genuine representative of the people of South Viet...
...Ho's thumbs down came in the midst of a last-ditch effort by the President to break the diplomatic impasse. For more than a week, he and his aides had been dropping hints designed, in the words of an Administration official, "to let the North Vietnamese know that they damn well better hurry up." The implication was clear that if they did not, the U.S. had no choice but to resume bombing...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Man of the Month," a profile of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
Western Pinups. In Operation Crimp, some 8,000 U.S. and Australian fighting men lanced into dusty Ho Bo Woods scarcely 30 miles to the north of Saigon in the crescent of rice lands, rubber plantations and jungle scrub that the Viet Cong have controlled for years...
...long suspected that a branch of the Communist "underground railroad"-the Ho Chi Minh trail-cut through Cambodia. But proof was hard to obtain: so wild and enemy-infested is the Viet Nam side of the Cambodian border that no allied troops had ventured to the border since the French left...