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...been officially acknowledged by the U.S.-though Thai artillery units and pilots are known to have fought in Laos on several previous occasions. It was a turn of events that intensely displeased doves in Washington. "It's too bad," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J.W. Fulbright. "It's a very unsettling element...
...terms of the Viet Nam conflict, last week's developments appear to leave Washington with one questionable plus -Cambodia-and one probable minus -Laos. Whatever may happen in Laos, the U.S. is extremely unlikely to use ground troops-as Senator Fulbright informed the world last week by releasing secret testimony by Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers said that the Nixon Administration had "no present plans" to send G.I.s to Laos even if Communist troops threatened to overrun it. Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird indicated that the U.S. would probably continue to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia...
...casualty bookkeeping. Nonetheless, it has long been common knowledge that Americans, military advisers and specialists, as well as civilians, have died in Laos under enemy fire. The credibility flap provided a new, irresistible opportunity for congressional critics of U.S. Asian policy. The major challenge came from J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Last week, in an effort to maintain congressional control over the Laotian war, the Arkansas Democrat introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution that the President could not employ ground-or air-forces in Laos without "affirmative action" by Congress...
Unrealistic Objectives. Such a switch might appease many congressional critics of the present program, including Senators William Fulbright and Edmund Muskie, as well as George Aiken, who recently damned the existing scheme as "a diplomatic pork barrel." It would also help to further lower the U.S. profile in international affairs, as Nixon wants to do. Military aid would be split off entirely from economic and technical assistance, thus ending a longstanding confusion. The U.S. would set up an international development bank, which would have $4 billion in capital and borrowing authority, and a technical-aid institute initially authorized...
Droll Humor. A lanky 6 ft. 1 in., William King at 45 looks like one of his own sculptures. Born in Florida, he took up engineering, soon became bored and headed for New York. He enrolled at Cooper Union and, three years later, won a Fulbright scholarship to study sculpture in Italy. His earliest works were wood carvings of bathers, musicians and athletes, which owed much to American folk...