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Official U. S. military sources claimed yesterday that the American supported South Vietnamese offensives in Laos and Cambodia have forced North Vietnam into a defensive position and disrupted Hanoi's plans for dry-season attacks...
...figured there would be a considerable reaction," Patrick J. Buchanan, a special assistant to the President, said yesterday, conceding that the possibility of a national outcry similar to the one that followed the invasion of Cambodia last May had been considered by President Nixon when the decision to invade Laos was made last month...
...took office, that the U.S. troop level is down by nearly 215,000 men from its early 1969 peak of 543,000, and that the level should be around 50,000 by the end of next year. U.S. military commanders plan to send ARVN troops back into Laos and Cambodia as often as necessary to keep South Viet Nam secure. The South Vietnamese might not be so enthusiastic about the idea, however, if they were handed an embarrassing defeat on the battlefield. At week's end, with the Communist resistance in Laos growing in ferocity, the possibility of such...
When the allies invaded Cambodia last spring, exuberant South Vietnamese units thrust 24 miles into the Parrot's Beak area in the very first day. Last week, 14 days after the first ARVN troops pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans...
...advance was kept to a cautious crawl for several reasons. Southeastern Cambodia is flat farmland; the Laotian panhandle is a tangle of dense, triple-canopy jungle. ARVN troops practically had to rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...