No Halt In Bombing
(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11. President Johnson said yesterday that bombing of the North Vietnamese panhandle would not stop “unless we are confident that it will not lead to an increase in the casualties we suffer.” Addressing the national convention of the American Legion, he won loud applause with the disclosure that General Creighton Abrams, the United States commander in Vietnam, had said that a bombing halt would force him to withdraw United States fighting men from the area south of the Demilitarised Zone and would allow the enemy to increase his capacity severalfold in 10 days.
Banging the rostrum amid further loud applause, the President said: “We are not going to take our men out”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31782, 12 September 1968, Page 15
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121No Halt In Bombing Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31782, 12 September 1968, Page 15
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