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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, January 12, 1967
;DniM NotHIh . Vieits Will Negotiate
HONG KONG (AP) Just
out of Hanoi, Correspondent
Harrison E. Salisbury ex
pressed doubt yesterday that
even a severe military defeat
could bring North Vietnam to
the conference table. Instead,
he speculated, the North Viet
namese would scatter to "the
jungles and mountains and
fight a guerrilla war."
"I don't believe they can be
compelled to come to a con
ference table," Salisbury, an
assistant managing editor of
the New York Times, said in
an interview with radio Hong
Kong.
. "These people strike me as
being very tough, very hardy,
very independent and very
courageous. They say, and I
rather believe them, that you
cannot drag them to the con
ference table; that they can't
be beaten into submission. . ."
Salisbury said he believed
the North Vietnamese were in
fluenced by two factors.
One was the Vietnamese de
feat of the French at Dien
Bien Phu that brought on
the Geneva settlement of 19t4
, dividing North and South Viet
nam. "They can't help believ-
, ing that some time there may
jbe an opportunity for a Dien
Bien Phu against the United
; States.
"Now, Point No. 2," he con-
tinued. "I do believe that
; they are deeply conditioned
by their experience, first with
, the French in the negotiations
. immediately after the war and
! then again with the results of
the Geneva negotiations.
"In both cases, they feel,
I rightly or wrongly, that they
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ched an agreement and the
other side refused to abide by
them.
"As a result of that they
say, time and again and quite
openly, that they have to be
doubly sure this time if they
go into negotiations it's going
to be one in which the agree
ment can be enforced. And
those terms, an agreement
which can be enforced. And
those terms were used specifi
cally to me by Pham Van
Dong, their prime minister."
North Vietnamese conditions
include a halt to the bomb
ing of North Vietnam and the
withdrawal of all U. S. Forc
es from South Vietnam.
As for U. S. bombings in
the North, Salisbury said "I
think that we have hurt the
North Vietnamese by bomb
ing," adding:
"We haven't hurt them ob
viously enough to bring them
to the point of negotiation. We
haven't been able to reduce
their military potential too
much. But we have made it
much harder for them to con
duct the war and we have
made them suffer."
Salisbury said U. S. bom
bers have hit oil storage de
pots "and they don't seem to
have very many any more.
They've all been knocked out
by the bombing."
Salisbury's New York Times
dispatches from Hanoi had
reported that many civilians
had been bombed.
Asked whether the United
States was in fact confining its
bombings to military targets
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Salisbury replied:
"As far as I could see,
most of North Vietnam is a
target area. That is to say,
you could seldom travel a
mile anywhert in the country
without seeing visible evidence
of the bombing offensive
somewhere along , the way.
"Now the reason for this is
that the principal military ob
jectives, the principal targets
that we're hitting in North
Vietnam, are the roads, the
highways, the bridges, the
railroads. The railroads, in
most cases, parallel the
highways. . .
"You don't have to be shown
the bomb damage, it's right
there. You see the bomb cra
ters, you see the road de
stroyed and repaired. You
se? the broken down bridges,
you travel over the pontoon
bridges put in to replace them.
"And, inevitably, when you
are bombing a railroad or a
highway and the highway or
the railroad runs through vil
lages, the villages get it along
with the highway. And this
has happened in ' North Viet
nam. . .
In many cases these
bombs have fallen on ordinary
homes. You can see them.
The houses are destroyed.
They have fallen in ordinary
streets where there are hous
es and small shops and things
of that kind.
"Now, the North Vietna
mese are convinced, since
this has happened so many
times, that it's deliberate, that
it is the policy on the part of
the United States to bomb
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"Now our president has said
specifically, and I must say
that I believe him, that he
has given very careful orders
that this is not to happen.
And he believes that our air
men have carried it out to the
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had antiaircraft defenses and
he saw plenty of them around
Hanoi but he got the impres
sion the countryside was rela
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Describing his two weeks in
North Vietnam, the corre
spondent saU: "I could not
go outside the city (Hanoi),
make a visit to some village
or town, without requesting
permission and then having
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restriction in a Communist
country "engaged in a bitter,
violent war against the United
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