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Three days of repeated raids took out the Ban Thach hydroelectric plant 80 miles south of Hanoi. Since the plant was of obvious value to Ho Chi Minh's military organization, its destruction did not mean that the U.S. had decided to escalate the war further by attacking purely civilian targets. Its loss would be felt, however, by the civilians whose browned-out towns had depended on it for what little electricity was available for the area. "It's a way to make the North Viet Nam people know there's a war going on," said...
...Navy A-4 Skyhawk felt the long arm of SAM-just as an Air Force Phantom had on July 24. The flight was out of range of any of the North Vietnamese missile sites so far identified by U.S. aerial intelligence, leading to the conclusion that Russia is supplying Ho Chi Minh with mobile surface-to-air missiles, much like the U.S.-built Hawk missile units that were installed in South Viet Nam last February. The sobering fact is that at present the U.S. military has no certain means of determining just where Ho's missiles...
...struggle between Ho Chi Minh [July 16] and the U.S. brings to mind Aesop's fable about the lion and the mosquito. The analogy would be complete if the might of the U.S. lion should prove less effective than the peskiness of Ho Chi Minh, the mosquito. Aesop's victorious mosquito, however, was soon trapped by the web of the spider. And isn't Red China's web all primed for Ho...
...North Vietnamese regulars, infiltrated south since the beginning of the year. No longer are the Viet Cong armed mostly with captured U.S. weapons; quantities of Red Chinese assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and rocket launchers have poured into the country via North Viet Nam, either down the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...forgot to mention Uncle Ho's visit to Uncle Sam. After leaving Great Britain before World War I, Ho Chi Minh came to America. While in Harlem, he claims to have learned about "the cruelties of Yankee capitalism and Negro lynching...