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fo RE: COUNTEROR..N...2ION WEEK In terms of the war of destruction against North Vietnam, the Vietnamese people convincingly argued that the U. S, thought this bombing of North Vietnam, not out of any moral sensibilities, but mainly because the error of destruction was defeated in the North by organizing people's war against it, mainly, that the massive anti-aircraft activities, from women in the rice paddies shooting at planes with rifles to the Soviet SAM missiles, had caused such a toll in terms of the number of U. S. aircraft shot down, it caused such economic strain on the U. S. in terms of what it was supposed to achieve, namely to stop the North from supplying material support to the South, that they were able to continue to give material aid to the Sorth and they were not able to break the resistance of the North Vietnamese people. In fact, the resistance of the North Vietnamese people increased and they were not able to disrupt the economy of North Vietnam. In fact, the economy of North Vietnam increased its output throughout that period. BOM On a F eaatiee EC re TET So they say that as mainly, that the Vietnamese people themselves played a decisive role in defeating the war of destruction in the North, although they do so that almost as important was the international public opinion calling for the stopping of the bombing in North Vietnam. All of you probably know about the tetoffensive (phonetic). The tetoffensive marks the period the Vietnamese see as the final. bankruptcy of the strategy of limited warfare. That with all of its military might, sophistocated technology, that the U. 8. was not even able to find out ahead of time about the spontaneous uprisings in 140-some cities all across South Vietnam, let alone to do anything about it. The Pentagon likes to make the claim that the tetoffensive was primarily a psychological victory and that it didn't really have that much political fruit. But the way the Vietnamese see what came out of the tetoffensive in terms of political goals was the formation this spring of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam which is made up mainly of two forces, the National Liberation Front and the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces. The latt:r coalition of organizations developed mainly as a result of the tetoffensive in the cities and represents elements within the cities that have 113 en eee; Ao |S ot sg. yh sg him, -. . CLIN Oe he eee Fee ee eT ae eT RPE TFS FR Re epee APH SA : + ey 4 &,