VIET NAM
DESPITE the proclamation of a ceasefire, Communist gunners last week shot down a U.S. helicopter near An Loc, injuring five American crew men. Armed clashes between Communist and South Vietnamese troops were running at about 150 a day. Air raids over the jungles of Laos by American B-52 bombers and fighter-bombers actually increased to an astonishing 380 strikes each day. Yet such are the bewildering juxtapositions of the Indochina conflict that, at the same time, Henry Kissinger moved through Hanoi and Peking suggesting plans to heal the wounds of war through...
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