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...raiders came through virtually unscathed, Laird was not so lucky when he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee early last week. The hearing room resounded with laughter when he told Chairman William Fulbright: "The intelligence in this mission was excellent." It was?but only up to the crucial point of whether or not prisoners were still at Son Tay. "Obviously the raid wasn't successful because of faulty intelligence," said Vice President Spiro Agnew from Palm Springs where he was golfing. Laird's only explanation was feeble: "We have not been able to develop a camera that sees through...
...then went to Capitol Hill to meet with some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When the closed meeting was over, even Senator J. William Fulbright had found mutual ground with Ky. "I told him that I have thought for a long time that all foreigners should get out of Viet Nam at the earliest possible date," Fulbright reported. "Mr. Ky said that he couldn't agree with me more." Ky said, "Senator Fulbright didn't give me a hard time...
...opposing President Nguyen Van Thieu was raised several times during the visit. Ky has chafed in the secondary role he has been forced to play during the past three years. Ky would like U.S. support-or at least neutrality-concerning his political ambitions. But one congenial encounter with Senator Fulbright is not likely to erase the liability of Ky's old image, and that, coupled with President Nixon's frequently stated respect for Thieu, probably makes his quest quite futile...
Assistant Secretary of Defense David Packard once appeared before the Committee while Panofsky was in Washington, and in response to a question from 'Senator Fulbright, said that he had consulted Panofsky about the ABM and Panofsky...
Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), said yesterday that the raid, the renewed bombing of North Vietnam, and the invasion of Cambodia "add up to a pattern... which shows us that the real policy of this administration is military victory, not negotiated settlement...