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...Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch News 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...
Beginning in the column to the left is an affidavit written by A. Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and noted antiwar activist and author. In the column to the right is an affidavit written by journalist Fred Branfman to accompany Chomsky...
...Crimson has printed a number of articles Branfman wrote in Southeast Asia as a reporter for Dispatch News Service...
...Branfman said that there have been unconfirmed reports that fiberglass is now being substituted for the metal pellets, since fiberglass splinters cannot be detected by x-rays...
...Plain of Jars was bombed daily while Branfman was in Laos, but he was unaware of it for several months, even though he lived only 100 miles from the Plain. "What the Plain of Jars symbolizes is that people on the vague frontiers can be vaporized without anyone in this country knowing anything about it," he said...