Word: branfman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch News Service International who worked for four years in Laos as a member of International Voluntary Services (IVS), is scheduled to testify this morning on the U.S. rationale for and effects of American bombing of civilian population in Laos...
...Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch Nows Service who lived in Laos for four years reports that in the three years before June 1966 Laos's exports totalled $3,000,000 while imports totalled $108,000,000-an import export ratio of 36 to 1. Recent government reports say that the ratio between 1964 and 1968 was 14 to 1. Other reports run as high...
...Fred Branfman interviewed over 1000 refugees in government centers during 1970. Branfman reported that "Each, without exception, said that his village had been totally levelled by bombing. Each without exception, said that he had spent months or even years on end hiding in holes or trenches dug in foothills...
...homes last year when North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces recaptured the Plain of Jars after ten days of fighting. Others have been driven from their villages by U.S. bombs. The terror of the Laotian bombings has been reflected in a series of refugees' drawings collected by Fred Branfman, formerly of the International Voluntary Services (see page...
Fred Braniman, former Dispatch News Service International Correspond-ent in Laos, spoke on his personal experiences with victims of bombings. He described peace overtures made by the Pathet Lao and rebuffed by the U.S. Branfman said that the only parallel he could find for the present American actions in Laos was in the novel...