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Ho Plots to Create
Honorable U.S. Defeat
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
BANGKOK (NEA)
Ho Chi Minh is attempting to bluff his way into a quick vic
tory over the United States.
His reponse to President Johnson's initiative amounts to the
aggressor asking the defender to unconditionally and unilater
ally stop retaliating against the aggressor’s invasion before
he will even talk about his terms. Yet it is Ho who is invading
South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
A study of captured documents and prisoner interviews
made by this reporter indicate that Hanoi is hurting.
The bombing is biting psychologically. It has forced Ho to
tighten economic and political controls. Though the economic
damage may not be high in dollar value, the air war has in
creased dissatisfaction and unrest among North Vietnamese.
North Vietnam Defense Minister Giap has made it clear one
of his major objectives was to get the bombing halted as a
necessary step toward winning the war.
Ho wants to move in for a quick kill, taking advantage of
the strong cleavages he sees in the United States. A Com
munist notebook captured lately says, “negotiation . . . con
sists of taking advantage of the enemy’s temporary and inter
nal frictions and dissensions.”
Stripped of our own wishful thinking, Ho’s terms require the
United States to agree in advance to accept defeat. A captured
document says the peace conference will be conducted in the
line of “creating an honorable defeat” for the United States.
Ho has proposed only to talk about the unilateral uncondi
tional U.S. cessation of bombing and “all other acts of war”
against the North Vietnamese government.
Ho does not say that in return North Vietnam will cut back
in any way on his aggression in the south.
Communist sources state clearly that if President Johnson
accepts Hanoi's terms for negotiations, Ho’s agents will try
to convince Asians that Hanoi has won the war.
Johnson made an important concession in ordering a halt
to bombing north of the 20th parallel. A portion of the major
invasion routes into northern Laos are north of this line.
Those who now accuse Johnson of misleading the world in
his bombing-halt announcement should reread his speech.
Johnson referred to a halt in regions containing 90 per cent
of the population and a majority of the ground area. North
Vietnam is shaped somewhat like the cloud of a nuclear bomb
explosion. There is a large bulb on top and a long narrow pan
handle below. The bulb contains most of the country’s area
and almost all of its people.
Roads to Laos and to South Vietnam byway of Laos branch
off at a number of points along the panhandle. Reconnaissance
photographs show the North Vietnamese are pushing large
convoys along these routes for attacks on Laos and South
Vietnam. It would thus be impossible for a responsible presi
dent to hold off on bombing these military movements.
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Head-On Collision Pushes
Weekend Road Toll To 17
By United Press International
.A head-on collision which
took the lives of four persons
was the worst accident of a
weekend in Georgia In which 17
persons died.
Gerald S. Salowinski, 27, of
Sylvania died when his car
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of Professional Engineers. The car, used to transport big
generators and large electrical equipment, is 159 feet long
and can handle a 523-ton payload.
crossed the center line on U.S.
301, according to the state pa
trol, and struck a car carrying
several youths.
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Amelia B. Whitney of White
Marsh, Md„ Carol F. Winslow
of Jarrettsville, Md., and Peter
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turn left In the path of oncom
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his car collided with another
vehicle. The 51-year-old man
was killed and four others in
jured.
Walter Davis, 19, of Ameri
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car struck an embankment
four miles West of Americus.
A 23-year-old Ohioan, James
Albert Harding of Chagrin Falls
died Saturday when he tried to
dodge several dogs crossing
U.S. 411 near Chatsworth. State
patrolmen said his car went out
of control and overturned sev
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Bobby Wisham, 27, of Ogle
thorpe drowned while fishing in
Flint River between Oglethorpe
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on Saturday.
Marylene Howard, 40, of Villa
Rica died of injuries received
Saturday when her car collided
with another vehicle north of
Carrollton on Georgia 166. Oc
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volved were not hurt.
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S.C., was driving on the wrong
side of the road and hit a trac
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over earlier in the weekend by
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Atlanta.
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death of Christopher Peter
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when Kimbrel’s car struck him.
Henry Lee Hightower, 21, of
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man when a car hit him while
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ham, 21, of Glennvllle sped off
Georgia 196 near his home and
hit a ramp Friday. He was
found dead in his overturned
auto.
Saturday an Ohio college stu
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