WITHOUT CYNICISM"
"The Americans, after having pounded everything that seemed to them worth destroying in the southern part of the country, are now turning to the delta of the Red river. The question arises . whether Hanoi will be spared much longer, and particularly whether the levees protecting the population and the crops will not constitute the next target of the bombers of the Seventh Fleet. The Americans dropped leaflets Friday informing the north Vietnamese population, not without cynicism, that the raids carried out by 2,788 planes over their territory between February 7 and April 3 had dropped 1,388 tons of bombs as well as hundreds of tons of rockets, The population was warned that the 'violent attacks! will be continued | «eet == From a dispatch in the July 4 Le Monde reporting the escalation of American attacks to the first "economic" targets. .
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