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...author, a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, recently returned from a trip to Southeast Asia. She and Michael Morrow of Dispatch News Service were expelled from Saigon after attending the founding meeting of the Popular Front for the Defense of Peace. A post-doctoral student at Harvard last year, she is now teaching at Tufts and the Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change...
...mercenary army in Laos, which is the main fighting force for the Americans there, is virtually destroyed. It's mainly the Meo army, and the Kennedy report estimates that the total population of the Meo is now down to about 200,000- from 400,000 a decade ago. The Dispatch News Service correspondent in Vientiane who has recently been investigating the Meo says that 12-year-old boys are drafted into their army immediately and he'd seen kids as young as eight in the Meo army...
Well over a million at least. How can you even count the casualties? I went to a refugee camp in April and counted about 400 people. A Dispatch correspondent went back in June, and in those months two months ten people had died of malnutrition and disease...
...contributed by Ed Magnuson, who spent ten years on the Minneapolis Tribune before joining TIME; Keith Johnson, another political veteran of the Herald Tribune, as well as TIME'S Los Angeles and Washington bureaus; and William Barnes, who broke into journalism covering politics for the White Plains Reporter Dispatch. The section has been greatly assisted throughout the campaign by the expertise of Hays Gorey, a 5½-year veteran of our Washington bureau, who came up for a writing stint in New York. Among his stories have been the Oct. 26 cover story on the Senate races...
...quiet signal came in the form of a dispatch from the United Nations to the authoritative Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Previously, the Sadat administration said it would not extend the truce unless Israel agreed to resume peace talks under the aegis of Mediator Gunnar Jarring. In the Al Ahram story, Egyptian diplomats indicated that they would extend the cease-fire even without agreement on resumption of talks, but only for a 60-day period...