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...other targets in North Viet Nam's southern panhandle. It was by far the longest and roughest of the more than 100 strikes, large and small, that American aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi, which angrily charged that "the insane Americans have attacked many populated areas" in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Quang Binh provinces. The North Vietnamese claimed to have shot down 19 American planes; the U.S. owned up to only four downed aircraft...
...which has turned over all the ground fighting, and thus nearly all the casualties, to the South Vietnamese army. With the decreasing rate of American casualties and periodic reductions in the number of U.S. troops, Nixon has hoped to quiet antiwar sentiment domestically while preventing the collapse of the Saigon government. Because the South Vietnamese army is clearly unable to bear the brunt of the fighting, as the disastrous results of the invasion of Laos showed last February. Nixon must have U.S. troops to do the job for them. And the only way he can use U.S. troops without...
...bombing cannot destroy the North Vietnamese potential for fighting and supplying its armies in the South because North Vietnam does not manufacture its own supplies but receives most of them as aid from China and the Soviet Union. To have any long-term effect on the ability of the Saigon government to survive, the bombing must be heavy and continuous as long as there is any threat of a North Vietnamese offensive. Thus, Nixon's Vietnamization strategy and the bombing which it entails spell a continued U.S. presence in Vietnam for years, if not decades, to come...
...dropped out of the war after suffering sharp losses against the better-trained U.S. pilots. One theory has it that with the reduction of U.S. air strength, Hanoi's air chiefs have come under pressure to be less timid with their precious planes. Says a military analyst in Saigon: "I can imagine a situation in the North Vietnamese Politburo where the civilians demand of the military, 'Well, you've got the damn things. When the hell are you going to use them...
...ordered its people to build bomb shelters in the event of B-52 raids. During a recent visit to Peking, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hinted that he expects that the U.S. will again threaten to use tactical nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the prisoners of war languish, and Saigon is planning forced relocation of large numbers of civilians...