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...prove that Hanoi is increasing its flow of supplies, and must be plotting a major offensive that would endanger U.S. lives. As a result, many longtime critics have come around to the view that perhaps the Nixon strategy is the only safe approach. As Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken said last week: "As long as the trend is downward in Viet Nam, as long as U.S. forces don't go into Cambodia or Laos, most of the people up here [in Congress] are saying: 'Let's give Nixon a chance.' I think the President is on safe ground...
...Senate, Sen, George D. Aiken (R-Ver.) urged the nations of Southeast Asia to convene their own international conference, in Asia, to settle the war in Indochina. Stating that peace "cannot be imposed by others," Aiken suggested that such a conference should include Japan, Communist China, and the Soviet Union. "I cannot believe that Russia has of late bad a vested interest in keeping up the conflict in Indochina," he said...
...billion in 1971, that American casualties have decreased by from 70% to 75% and that the number of sorties flown by U.S. aircraft over combat zones has been reduced by some 50% compared to 1968. It is also true, as Vermont's Senator George Aiken said, that if U.S. operations in Indochina become markedly more ambitious, "It would result in an uproar in this country that would make what happened last May look like a Sunday school picnic...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.), ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday that he had been briefed late last week by State Department officials on an impending massive sweep of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the vicinity of the Laotian border...
...Aiken said that he has been told nothing more about the operations since last Friday, and called the government's information blackout "the tightest censorship since World...