Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushed across the Laotian border to strike at the Ho Chi Minh Trail network, they had covered only some 15 miles and were coming under increasingly intense enemy pressure. U.S. commanders insisted that Operation Lam Son 719, despite its slow pace, was scoring military gains. But Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned President Nixon that the 17,000 ARVN troops and the 9,000 Americans who are providing logistical support and rearguard cover could expect "some tough days ahead...
...Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird claimed that the South Vietnamese invasion, which began on February 8th, had not bogged down. "The operation is going according to plan," he said yesterday...
...command also reported that fighting had picked up in eastern Cambodia, where they reported having killed 140 Viet Cong troops. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said yesterday South Vietnamese troops may soon be involved in heavy fighting in Cambodia as well as Laos...
...crimp the Communist prospects for 1972, the allies would have to stem the flow of men and supplies?especially supplies?in 1971. Shortly after the turn of the year, Nixon decided to take action. Just before Defense Secretary Melvin Laird left on his three-day trip to Saigon in early January, Nixon laid down his general objectives...
...Saigon, Laird discussed Nixon's worries with Abrams. The first signs that something big was afoot came in mid-January, soon after Laird departed. General Cao Van Vien, chairman of the South Vietnamese Joint Chiefs of Staff, told his subordinates that there would be no more talking to the press ?particularly about operations in Military Region I. Soon after, Abrams met Vien and Major General Tran Van Minh, the South Vietnamese air force chief, to discuss strategy. The three met twice more in the next two days...