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stated that a Soviet crewman was injured and
the freighter Simferopol damaged in U.S.
air strikes on Haiphong,55 miles east of Ha-
noi.
Soviet leaders condemned the bombings
and summoned the U.S, Ambassador Jacob
Beam to the foreign Ministry in Moscow to
register its protest. The Soviet Union declared
publicly that its leaders were "attentively
watching' the situation in North Vietnam.
The U.S. Command, disclosing new details
on earlier raids over North Vietnam during
the past week, said about 275 strike sorties
were flown north of the demilitarized zone.
since April 9. A sortie comprises one bomber
flying a single mission.
The command also said that there were
251 sorties flown yesterday in South Vietnam
primarily in the northern provinces and i the
region directly north of Saigon.
It was reported last night that the decision
to bomb Haiphong and other key northern
cities was made more than a week ago.
Yesterday's raids marked the deepest pen-
etration into North Vietnam by American B-
52s. The big warplanes each carry 30 tons of
bombs, and fly at such high altitudes that
their bombs hit before the sound objet en-
gines is even heard.
The raids in the Haiphong area were the
first sustained attacks in that area of the coun-
try since March,1968, when President Lyn-
don Johnson ordered a partial halt in hombinc-
limiting U.S. air strikes to below the 19th par-
allel. Seven months later, Johnson order-
ed a complete halt in the bombing of the
North.
Since the offensive of anti-Saigon forces
began almost three weeks ago in South Viet-
nam, there has been a continuous buildup in
U.S. firepower. There are now more than 700
planes in and around Indochina, as well as
four aircraft carriers and dozens of other ships.
In ground action in South Vietnam, Saigon
government forces claimed to be in a netter
position in the strategic provincial capital
of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon in Binh-
long.province.
'The crisis has passed,' senior U.S. sources
said yesterday, as South Vietnamese paratroo-
pers were airlifted into the embattled city,
almost totally destroyed after near-saturation
American bombing.
What U.S. sources called an'indeterminate
number' of anti-Saigon forces moved down Hi
Highway 13, which runs south to Saigon from
the provincial capital, to challenge ths relief
column sent to relieve South Vietnamese for-
ces in An Loc.
Highway 13 is cut north of Chon Thanh,
15 miles south of An Loc.
Bridges were blown up by anti-Saigon for-
ces on Highway 1, the coastal highway which
runs alomst the length of the country. U.S.
sources said they would take at least five days
to repair.
U.S. officials were apprehensive that the al-
most three-week old offensive might continue
for months instead of the short time span pre-
dicted earlier by officials on the scene
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College Rallies Set
by Dave Burhenn al Building in Austin, The group will reportedly
Rallies have been scheduled for attempt to enter the building to talk with em-
ployees about the war.
this week at college campuses nation- A teach-in against the war took place at Yale
wide to protest the excalation of the University last night and a protest at the neigh-
ir war over Indochina. A survey of boring Sikorsky helicopter plant in Stanford,
-I AConn. is planned today. A university-wide meet-
20 college campuses last nfight shows ing is scheduled for Thursday to discuss possible
a wide range of schedule dactivities. action in response to the escalation.
Demonstrators will picket at the Michigan
At Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., State University administration building today at
a coalition of student and faculty groups is hold- noon, to, in the words of a leaflet, "have us out
ing a rally in the center of the campus at noon of Nam."
today. A nightime demonstration will also pro- In addition to these local demonstrations,
test the intensified bombings. large scale rallies will take place this weekend in
University of Texas students will march to- San Francisco and New York City. Thousands
day from Bergstrom Air Force Base to the Feder- are expected to participate.
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U.. OMS ANI
From Wire Service Reports
Heavy raids by B52s and other
bombers hit Hanoi's outskirts yester-
day morning, leaving large areas in
flames, the U.S. Command reported,
Hanoi radio said the bombers struck
the city itself. A North Vietnamese broad-
cast said that there were "massive attacks
on many populous quarters of the capital
city of Hanoi and its outskirts."
Bombing raids earlier yesterday morning hit
the port city of Haiphong--a major receiving
point for military supplies-and reportedly dam-
aged a Soviet freighter there.
North Vietnamese radio said today that the
raids on Haiphong killed "many hundreds of civ-
ilians" and wounded hundreds more. The broad-
cast also reported damage to "several ships" tied
up at Haiphong docks.
Radio lanoi reported a "number" of civil-
ians killed and wounded when American planes
hit Hanoi, but gave no indication of damage
there. It said U.S. bombers hit Haiphong in re-
peated raids throughout the day yesterday.
The North Vietnamese Communist Party
newspaper also said there was an all-night U.S.
Navy bombardment of targets the length of
North Vietnam's coastline preceding yesterday's
air raids.
In reporting "hundreds of civilians killed and
more hundreds wounded," the paper refered to
both the bombing and the shelling.
Meanwhile, the chief North Vietnamese neg-
otiator at the Paris peace talks said in a taped in-
terview yesterday that the United States was
preparing to strengthen its ground forces in Soutl
Vietnam and was threatening to invade the North
However, Thuy said his side was prepared to
resume the peace talkscancelled by President
Nixon several weeks ago--although bombing of
the North had notstopped.
President Nixon has refused to comment on
the attacks U.S. sources said, however, that the
President ordered the strikes as a "retaliatory"
measure against the offensive currently threaten-
ing Saigon forces in the south.
One American pilot reported that U.S. planes
had attacked fuel depots on the outskirts of HIan.
oi and that he sass petroleum fires burning along
with huge fireballs and columns of black smoke.
The U.S. command refused to say how many
planes were involved in the strikes, but official
sources put the number at at least 200 in the in-
itial raids. Hundreds of strikes were flown later
in the day.
Pilots of the attacking aircraft main=
tained that bombs touched off 16 large pet-
roleum fires and 68 large secondary explosions.
The command also asserted that barges, ware-
houses, bridges and anti-aircraft equipment had
been destroyed during strikes in the past week.
One pilot said he was close enough to see
the North Vietnameses capital.
'It felt great to know our psrisoners of
war might hear the bombs and have a smile
on their face,' he said.
The U.S. squadrons encountered heavy
anti-aircraft artillery fire as well as 200 sur-
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HUNDREDS OF U.S. WARPLANES yes-
terday caused heavy damage around Hanoi
and Haiphong. Meanwhile, in the South,
Communist rockets and mortar shells slam
slammed into Da Nang and U.S. positions
20 miles northeast of Saigon.
face-to-air missiles, and Hanoi said one B52
and 14 smaller planes had been shot down,
The U.S. Command maintained that only
two tactical fighter-bombers were shot down
and that all B52s returned intact.
A dispatch distributed by the: North Viet-
namese delegation to the Paris peace talks
See BOMBINGS, Page 4
Ann Arbor
protest seot
by CHRIS PARKS
Local anti-war leaders last night
called for a rally on the Diag at noon
today to protest the escalation of the
ari war over Indochina.
The gathering, called by People Against
the Air War (PAAW) and co-sponsored by
other local groups is billed as an "emergen-
cy rally" to protest U.S. bombing raids on
Hanoi and Haiphong.
According to Arlene Griffin of PAAW,
scheduled rally speakers include city coun-
cil member Nancy Wechsler (HRP-second
ward) and Mike Lewis of Vietnam Veterans
Against the War (VVAW). Genie Plamondon
of the Rainbow People's Party will also
speak.
Wechsler said last night she will speak on an or-
dinance proposed by her and council member
Jetry DeGrieck (HRP-first ward) to cut off city
services to local firms engaged in government spon-
sored war research. City Councilwill consider the
proposed ordinance at their regular session tonight.
Lewis said he will seek support from those at
the rally for a march to the Air Force and Navy
recruiting offices on Liberty St.
"We plan to enter the office and we are going
to try to shut them down," he said.
According to Griffin, tomorrow's rally will fo-
cus on Wechsler's and DeGrieck's resolution.
"This is a local response to the escalation of the
war," she said. "Local people can do something
to make city government responsible."
Wechsler and DeGrieck both expect that the
ordinance will fail for lack of support from Rep-
ublican and Democratic council members.
However, DeGrieck said last night itis impor-
tant for people who oppose the air war to attend
tonight's council meeting. If the ordinance pro-
posed is not passed on first reading tonight, he ex-
plained, there will be no public hearings held on
it.
All proposed city ordinances face two read-
ings. If the ordinance is passed on first reading,
it faces hearings. Customarily, ordinances are
passed routinely at first reading to open the way
for public debate.
"The Democrats," Wechsler said, "say it is to-
talitarian to cut off city services."
"I don't feel," she continued "that KMS-a
local company charged with doing war research
contracts for the government-has the right to do
what they are doing. What they are doing is much
more disgusting than cutting off services."
Lewis said the planned disruption at the Air
Force recruiting office is designed to make "peo-
See PROTESTS, Page 4
ple see how serious itris to drop bombs on a big
city."
"The bombing," he said, "is not very precise.
They are killing a lot of people who have noth-
ing to do with the war."
A coalition of local anti-war leaders and roups
have voiced support for the planned actions.
Among supporters of the rally are Barbara Ful-
ler of the Interfaith Council for Peace, Elizabeth
Taylor of Ann Arbor War Tax Resistance, the
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Hu-
man Rights Party and John Sinclair, Chairman of
the Rainbow People's Party.
Fuller said that although the Interfaith Coun-
cil's steering committee had not met to discuss
the rally she felt it is "great" and said "we might
send someone over there."
Fuller also said her group 4 planning to con-
struct a simulated bomb crater later in the week
to symbolize the destruction caused by the U.S.
air war in Indochina.
Taylor siad her group will be involved in war
tax resistance activities tomorrow.
The group plans to pass out leaflets against
war taxes at the post office from 9:30 a.m. till
midnight tonight.
According to Taylor "a lot of people will be
spending their last day (today) doing their returns
and we'll be out there with our leaflets when they
come to the post office to mail them in.