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...United States subverted a previous settlement of the Laotian struggle ten years ago, inaugurating a period of renewed warfare that witnessed Pathet Lao advances despite continuous American aerial bombardment...
...bombing began in earnest in mid-1964, peaking in 1969 and ending only last February. The aerial onslaught, which lasted longer than the bombing by any country of another in world history, carpeted sections of Laos with hundreds of thousands of bomb craters and turned between one-third and one-half of Laos's three million people into homeless refugees...
Almost a decade of aerial destruction have gained nothing for the United States. The settlement is on terms far more amenable to the Pathet Lao than the 1962 agreements which the U.S. subverted...
...free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing continues to murder, maim, starve and make homeless the people of Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...
...Cambodian bombing continues through the summer, the alliance will form once again. But if, as is more likely, Watergate and Congress force an end to the aerial genocide, the war will have disappeared. Barring another brutal American intervention in the Third World in the near future, radicalism on campus will pull up abruptly at a temporary stasis, probing gently for new outlets, a new basis for the alliance...