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Ho Uses Sea to Rebuild
Forces in South Vietnam
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Official U.S. government statements that the North Viet
namese have not stepped up the movement of men and
materiel down the Ho Chi Minh trails since the bombing
halt are highly misleading.
For the plain and simple fact is that Hanoi has increased
its shipments south dramatically since Nov. I—but this
round by sea.
This reporter has learned that agencies of the U.S. gov
ernment have just received information (which they are
not making public for reasons that are not clear at this
writing) that immediately following the bombing halt
the North Vietnamese began shipping greater quantities
of arms and other supplies into South Vietnam by vessels
infiltrating close along the coast.
The reports indicate the beginning of a major build-up.
This dramatic increase in Hanoi’s sea supply of the south
was made possible by the unannounced heavy cutback in
U.S. patrolling off the North Vietnam coast that paralleled
the halt in bombing attacks on the north.
Before the bombing halt, patrolling of North Vietnam’s
coastal areas was heavy, especially in the vicinity of ports,
river mouths and other areas where vessels loaded with
supplies or arms could put to sea for the south.
Patrols have been continued along the coast of South
Vietnam, but these units have found it impossible to pre
vent the arms ships from sliding through.
Years of experience have shown that the only way to
block the seaborne shipments of supplies from North Viet
nam is to spot the ships coming out of port. The ships can
then be tracked until they hit South Vietnam waters, at
which time they can be attacked.
The distances are so great and the opportunities for
blockade runners so unlimited that catching ships blind is
next to impossible. Tracking is the only effective technique
developed to date.
It is true that since the start of the war in South Viet
nam, Ho Chi Minh’s sea units have brought in men, wea
pons and materiel by sea. Some has come from Cambodia
around the southern flank of South Vietnam and some
directly from the north. At times, especially before the in
creasing efficiency of our naval patrols, these shipments
have been quite large.
But not for a long time has Ho brought in by sea such
quantities as in the past two weeks.
The reason for this build-up is not clear. But two things
are certain. It wasn’t expected by the men who agreed to
a cutback of operations in the north. It has put the United
States at a disadvantage. The military men had figured
they could offset a bombing halt in North Vietnam by in
creasing the rate of bombing on the Ho Chi Minh trails in
Laos.
They haven’t yet figured how to stop the seaborne traf
fic without resuming the close-in patrolling of the north
with effective numbers of ships and aircraft. Yet this might
appear to break President Johnson’s commitment to Hanoi.
How do naval units patrol so closely without getting into
firefichts?
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Tony Curtis, well known for his
playboy roles in movies, is
giving a press party at the
Acapulco film festival for girl
reporters only.
“The only pair of trousers I
want to see at that party are
my own,” Curtis told festival
officials when he phoned ahead
to make arrangements.
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into them on the telephone.”
GRzIVE UNDERTAKING
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — The
thieves who broke into the
Falcon Chemical Co. stole 63
gallons of fluid they will have a
tough time using.
Everett Purnell, owner of the
firm, said the bottles contained
embalming fluid.
World Briefs
By United Press International
KILLER TYPHOON
MANILA (UPI) — Typhoon
Nina left 17 persons dead and 56
fishermen missing in its sweep
across the Philippines, the
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AUSTRIA GETS COLOR TV
VIENNA (UPI) — Austrian
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ULTIMATE TRIBUTE
TEOCAK, Yugoslavia (UPI)—
Mr. and Mrs. Tundza Mujcino
vic named their eighth child
Dubcek Monday in honor of the
Czechoslovak Communist Party
first secretary and telegraphed
the news to the statesman in
Prague, the newspaper Politika
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MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY
CASERTA, Italy (UPI)—
Francesco Fusco, 35, shot and
killed his friend Antonio Santon
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quarrel that began when the
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PLOT SMASHED
LIMA, Peru (UPl)—Police
have smashed a nationwide
communist plot to bomb movie
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LOVE THAT MAN
DENVER (UPI)—Gov. John
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