October 26, 1972
Bombing
Increases
My Tho, Vietnam (DNSI)
U. S. B-52 bombers are flying
regular missions over the heavily
populated Mekong Delta for the
first time in the war, resulting in
sharply increased civilian
bombing casualties.
The giant bombers have
flown 125 missions there since
early July, three planes to a
mission.
Before the July raids began,
most B-52 strikes occured
further north in less densely
populated areas in the Central
Highlands and Quang Tri
province. The Delta had been
avoided due to its heavy
population. Dinh Tuong
province is about a third the size
of Rhode Island, but its
well-worked fertile lands support
a population of 600,000
Vietnamese.
The bombing policy was
changed, say military ovservers,
due to increased North
Vietnamese activities in the area,
coming at the time of American
troop withdrawals.
The B-52s' five and seven
hunched pound bombs are aimed
at an estimated 5,000 North
Vietnamese who have infiltrated
into Dinh Tuong during the past
two months.
But wounded civilians say
that more villagers than soldiers
have been killed by the bombs.
Several bombing victims claim
that entire hamlets have been
wiped out.
--A 58 year old rice farmer,
Bui Van Si, was cutting rice with
nine other men near their hamlet
in Dinh Tuong province a few
weeks ago when suddenly bombs
rained in upon them. Instantly,
all but Bui Van Si and one other
were dead.
--Le Thi Biet, a 48-year-old
peasant mother, just returned to
her straw hut in Long Thanh
hamlet when bombs began
thundering nearby. She was
knocked unconscious. When she
woke up she found ten villagers
had been killed and many others
wounded.
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--A 42-year-old pregnant
woman cracked her hip as she
dived for shelter when bombs
exploded on My Trinh hamlet
"flattening many houses" and
killing many civilians. Her own
house was crushed, but a bomb
shelter beneath it saved her life.
—Three days after some heavy
fighting near 12-year-old Le Van
Du's My Trung hamlet, his
father sent him to the fields to
walk some water buffaloes.
Suddenly bombs fell nearby and
Du, who is now bandaged from
head to foot, suffered head
injuries and internal ibleeding.
One Vietnamese military
officer who deals with war
casualties said he was aware of at
least 20 to 30 civilian deaths
weekly as a result of
the American bombing. He
added that probably many other
deaths have gone unreported.
"The North Vietnamese
mingle with the villagers," one
ARVN officer said. "We try not
to call bombs in on villagers but
sometimes they get mixed up
with the Vietcong."
A U. S. military officer said
that precautions were taken to
avoid civilian bombing deaths,
but admitted that "peasants
keep moving in and out of
contested areas." He said the
bombing was based on
"excellent intelligence" but a
few minutes later added that the
North Vietnamese had broken
contact and that government
forces had "no idea" where they
would show up next.
The officer said that he was
aware of "no B-52 bombing
casualties", but said that no one
had checked the province
hospital just across the street
from military headquarters.
A spot check of only two
wards there revealed eleven
separate civilian bombing
casualties. The patients said that
in nearly each incident in which
they had been wounded, several
civilians had been killed
many wounded.
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THE CAPITOLIST
Jane Fonda Visits U. P.
UNIVERSITY PARK (APS)
Calling for an immediate end
to U.S. involvement in
Indochina, anti-war activist Jane
Fonda, speaking to an estimated
crowd of 5,000 herp last week,
said the United States, "is
waging a cultural and ecological
genocide on the people of
Vietnam."
The noted actress, speaking in
behalf of the Indochina Peace
Campaign, stated that the U.S.
policy of saturation bombing
and the use of various methods
of defoliation has, "raped the
land of its life sustaining
elements and has driven the
people from their ancient
ancestral homes...B-52's flying at
30,000 feet drop 90 tons of
bombs on an area one-half mile
wide by one and one-quarter
miles long, wiping everything in
that area off the face of the
earth."
She stressed the fact that the
Pentagon Papers clearly indicate
the United States is responsible
for the military aggression in
Vietnam, "although the struggle
for independence in Vietnam is
centuries 01d...we know from
the Pentagon Papers that the
United States invaded Vietnam
in 1965. It is clear that the
United States is the aggressor in
Indochina," she said.
Condemning , the Saigon
Government for its corruption,
she stated that the South
Vietnamese people have grown
intolerant of the abusive Theiu
regime, "Theiu is recognized
around the world as a dictator.
It is important to remember that
the war is a war of the people
against Theiu."
She also cited the fact that
Theiu's sister, Madame Nuyegn
Bien, has been discovered
trafficing in heroin and that her
connection is a high ranking
official of the Pepsi Cola
Bottling Company in Bientiene,
Laos, a corporation for which
President Nixon worked as a
lawyer from 1962 to 1965.
Miss Fonda charged the
Nixon Administration with
failing to bring a end to, U.S.
involvement in Vietnam. She
stated that two years ago Nixon
was informed that the
pacification program was a
failure but that, "Nixon needed
to buy time through
pacification." She condemned
the Administration for its
indiscriminate bombing tactics,
charging that these tactics have,
"forced the people from their
homes in the countryside into
the city where they live in filth."
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She condemned the
administration for using the
"starvation policy" in the
bombing of North Vietnamese
dikes, which she claims rupture
and flood fertile lowland rice
producing areas, "Nixon is
trying to bring the North to its
knees...he's trying to buy peace
through the sale of food to a
nation he himself is starving to
death."
She said the Administration
has dulled the minds of the
American people through its
propaganda facades, "I cry for
us (the American people) for not
being able to understand what's
going on in Vietnam...for a long
time I didn't realize what was
happening in Indochina, I am no
longer a dead leaf on a
branch...We have a chance to
end the war in Vietnam, at least
we can put a spine back into the
anti-war effort. We must educate
ourselves about Vietnam and
than vote to end this war."
Accompaning Miss Fonda on
her tour were, former P.O.W.
George Smith, singers Holly
Near and David Martin, and Tom
Hayden, fromer SDS leader. The
group planned to make
Maryland the next stop on their
seven state speaking tour.