World: Diminishing Heartland

Ho Chi Minh and the men who rule North Viet Nam with him are getting less sleep these nights. U.S. planes have not only bombed Hanoi and vicinity several times recently by day and night, but regularly streak overhead on the way to other targets, forcing the Communist leaders to take shelter like the rest of the citizenry. Just as sleep-killing as the dramatic raids over and around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong, however, is the steady stream of information that flows into Hanoi about the more routine daily destruction wreaked by U.S. planes on practically anything that moves or...

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