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...American policy. Smithies devotes a few paragraphs to the people whose future he is planning. "The population is hardy and vigorous, particularly those that have come from the North," reads a typical passage. "The Chinese influence and incessant wars over the centuries have produced hardier stock than has (sic) Cambodia, Thailand and other countries that have been subject to Indian influence...
Ellsberg described American war policy as that of a "threat" against the North Vietnamese and national liberation forces. "The U.S. threatens to destroy Hanoi, Haiphong and the Red River dykes unless the Vietnamese capitulate. The U.S. then depopulates enormous areas of Laos and Cambodia to show North Vietnam that the American threat is credible," Ellsberg said...
Today's hearings will deal with the effects of American bombing on the rural population of Southeast Asia. Close to 50 American pilots, photo reconnaissance and photo damage assessment personnel are expected to testify about the results of American saturation bombing of North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos...
...other towns in Southern Laos to secret CIA bases in the region, according to these sources. Late last year it was revealed that one of the CIA operations in Southern Laos is the training of 1500 Cambodian soldiers, in order to evade Congressional restrictions on U.S. operations in Cambodia...
...Like the rest of us, your expectations had been lowered, we were told, and your threshold of outrage raised" Kennedy said. "After Carswell, any candidate who was not a racist looked good: after Cambodia, the Laos 'incursion' hardly excited anyone; next to John Mitchell, John Connally looked like a saint...