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HEFFICIAL GAVE MlFPOPULATED STREETS' INSIDE HANOI WHICH HAD BEEN BOMBED
AND STRAFED ONNDY U. S. PLANES, HEOF MORE POPULATED AREAS ATTACKED INSOUTHERN AND WESTERN OUTSKIRTS. FOREIGNALSO ATTACKED. THERE ARE-NO MILITARY OBJECT IVES INATTACKED. OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE KILLEDIN THESE ATTACKS. HE SAID THAT THESE RECKLESSATTACKS WHICH WERE AGAINST HUMANITY AKD AGAINSTAGREEMENT WERE DESIGNED TO FORCE VIETNAM THE AMERICANS WERE GRAVELY MISTAKEN. FIGHT ON WITH EVEN GRIMMER DETERMINATION
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTIETNAM APPEALING TOOT HER SOCIALIST AND FOR SUPPORT, AND TO DENOUNCE AMERICAN ATTACKS ON AND ITS WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST VIETNAM.
even though it nay not have bees so intended, with planes operating right over the city and with the targets on the fringes and ground indistinguishable from THi city itself it is unlikely the city would not suffer considerably from bombs, or rockets or by unexploded missiles, anti-aircraft shells or shrapnel.
c. the american fighting against hanoi has considerably inflamed passions and the thinking of the vietnamese Ml if the paids over hanoi ape repeated on the same scale as the paids onnd ecember, it is considered certain that vietnam will take some action to meet this challenge. there is speculation as to whether this will make vietnam deviate from or modify her present policy of doing the fighting herself and not asking for military volunteers. while amepicantave their own methods of assessing the effects of the bombs, the opinion held here by practically all observers is that in bombin3 the heart of hanoi, in causing civil losses and some frightfulness, the results have not peen effective.
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