President. before our unilateral reduction in the bombing rate of North Vietnam. this Nation was "treated" to almost daily accounts of the damage our bombs were doing to the civilian population there. We saw pictures of supposedly napalmed children. North Vietnamese women were depicted in their grief at losing loved ones. Refugee families with their pitifully small set of household stores were seen on the TV screens displaced from their wretched huts. The great. grand New York Times managed a special set of stories by Mr. Harrison Salisbury telling us and all the world what bad folks we were because some of our bombs. though admittedly aimed at military targets. exploded too close to civilian areas.
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Depicting North Vietnamese women as grieving and refugee families as pitiful.