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...Peaceniks. Much of the protest to which Johnson responded was of the "please sign this petition" variety. At Columbia University, students collected 300 signatures for a cable to North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh...
MIGs & Sidewinders. Hanoi's propagandists met the challenge from the air with the only thing they have to spare: words. North Viet Nam's goat-bearded President Ho Chi Minh soothed his anxious population with wild claims of 165 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes shot down (the actual toll since February has been less than 30). But Ho apparently did get help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet...
...South. He also wants to ensure that the South Vietnamese government isn't swept into the sea by the major Vietcong offensive expected later this month. Second, he is bombing North Vietnam, and perhaps raiding it as well. The bombing is designed to raise military morale, to pressure Ho Chi Minh to negotiate for peace on Johnson's terms, and to cut off transport arteries leading south. These arteries have carried whatever equipment Hanoi has sent south and would be used in any major retaliation against the American bombings...
...policy is rooted in the refusal to allow the Vietnamese people to choose their own path to change. President Eisenhower in his memoirs admits that "had elections been held as of the time of the fighting possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh." Therefore Diem with U.S. backing did not permit these elections to take place in 1956 as provided for by the Geneva accords. Can we then believe that President Johnson's offer to reaffirm old agreements or to strengthen them with new ones is anything less than an attempt...
...will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement." Since the condition for an end to U.S. military involvement is that Ho Chi Minh call off an army that is not his to command, it is Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" that is meaningless. The offer of $1 billion of aid to develop the Mekong delta and the expressed desire to see peace returned to that part of the world are an attempt to place the blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front...