Friday, May 12, 1972
N. Viets Assail Mining
TOKYO (AP) --North Vietnam Wednesday assailed the U.S. mining of North Vietnamese ports and declared its people have "enough determination and enough strength to persist in their just, certainly victorious struggle, even if it will last five or 10 other years, or much longer."A statement of the North Vietnamese government broadcast by Hanoi's official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said the U.S. action announced by President Nixon Monday "anyhow, is but a reckless act of a desperado."The statement said "The highly adventurous and crazy act of was escalation taken by the Nixon administration ... has further exposed the extremely aggressive, obdurate, and bellicose nature of that administration."It demanded that the United States immediately stop mining North Vietnamese ports and put an end to bombardments of North Vietnam.The statement called on the armed forces and entire people "to unite millions as one man ... in order to fight resolutely for the liberation of the south, and join the fraternal peoples of Laos and Cambodia in this resolute struggle to rid the Indochinese peninsula of U.S. imperialism.""N. Viets Assail Mining", by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Friday, May 12, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.