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...While the U.S.-imposed news embargo continued yesterday, Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin charged that American and South Vietnamese forces had launched "an outrageous invasion" of southern Laos. The North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry issued a statement over Radio Hanoi accusing Washington of "intensifying and expanding its war in Indochina...
Other indications that the invasion will take place sometime in the next few days were a news embargo placed on all information emanating from the area, a statement by Secretary of State William P. Rogers Friday holding open the possibility of U.S. air support for a South Vietnamese invasion of Laos, and the announcement Friday that the South Vietnamese have been conducting small unit operations on the ground in Laos for several months...
...news embargo was originally scheduled to be lifted by 6 p.m. Saturday but was later extended for an indefinite time. There was speculation that bad weather in southern Laos had caused a postponement of the invasion and that the embargo will stay in force until the invasion has actually taken place...
...lingering fear that it could all happen again. As the walkout proved, even a brief suspension of service has an impact. Hundreds of thousands of commuters, for example, were forced to improvise means of getting to work and back. The post office, struggling through the Christmas rush, had to embargo all second, third and fourth class mail traveling more than 300 miles...
...Vlachos discontinued publication of her newspaper in protest of the coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission on Human Rights' findings that torture is a practice...