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Tass reported on Tuesday that bombing sorties in the week before Christmas had left Gia Lam suburb of Hanoi looking as if a severe earthquake had hit it.

In southern Hanoi there were strips of 'dead soil' 500 yards wide and up to 1.2 miles long in what were formerly residential areas of the city, Tass reported.

Latest reports from Hanoi indicate that the bombing is now aimed right at the heart of the city and is more intensive than ever.

"The B52 bombers came in larger numbers and from a high black sky they dropped carpets of bombs right in the middle of Hanoi and the immediate suburb, Hanoi radio said.

It said the bombs had 'poured like rain' on the inhabitants of Pho Kham Thien Street, which seemed to be one of the main targets for the B52s.

But the defiant North Vietnamese defenders exacted a heavy toll in downed bombers, leaving the streets of the North Vietnamese capital littered with debris from crashed B52s.

their heaviest raids resumed the bombing a perfunctory Christmas on, US officials ind icated they and the Soviet Ui lion to get nmodating' at the negotiating Stalinists have done nothing that relations with Nixon, making only ›ombardment of North Vietnam. are in a position to see exactly what Vietnamese capital, the nerve-centre Eight more B52s were shot down over Hanoi yesterday morning, bringing the total number of the giant bombers destroyed to 26 since the raids began nine days ago.

All but the most essential personnel have been evacuated from the city, but the death toll from the unprecedented bombing is still extremely high.

White House spokesmen say the bombing will continue for several weeks', until the North Vietnamese leaders agree to resume what President Nixon terms 'meaningful negotiations'.

One officer of the US military command in Saigon said the bombing 'pause' was to enable the North Vietnamese to come back to the 'peace' talks 'and no fooling around, but that Nixon had made it known that 'if the Vietnamese say "OK, come and get us" then we're really going to kill them'.

Hanoi has made it clear that it will stand firm through its "test of fire'. The latest Foreign Ministry statement on the bombing says the brutal and barbaric US attacks surpass Hitler's war JANE FONDA and Tom Hayden left Britain yesterday, still angry at their treatment by immigratior officials. The actress and her husband-to-be were detained for two hours on Tuesday when they arrived for a conference against US policy in Vietnam.

Hayden, a leader of the US Students for a Democratic Society, of conspiracy rearges in contection with demonstrations at the Democratic convention of 1968.

As the couple left Heathrow airport, he said that the immigramen had told him they needed agreement from 'a higher authority' before he could be let in. "They said they • could not give us the reason. They did not have to give a reason.'