Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Announcing the raids on Saturday, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird had said they were "limited duration protective reaction air strikes against missile and antiaircraft gun sites and related facilities in North Vietnam, south of the 19th parallel"-far to the south of Hanoi...
...Laird did not say what the "related facilities" were, but sources identified them as supply dumps piled high with war materials awaiting shipment through Laos into Cambodia and South Vietnam...
...Laird added as justification the need to protect the lives of American pilots flying combat missions "throughout southern Laos...
...last Saturday, while most of Harvard slept soundly dreaming about things like 29-29 ties and Jack Daniels-filled silver flasks, Secretary of State Melvin R. Laird announced that the U. S. had begun a "limited duration protective reaction air strike" against the North Vietnamese...
Secretary Laird's explanation for the bombing-that the North Vietnamese were being justly punished for firing on an American spy plane in their skies-is a crude lie. The reaction of North Vietnam to an intruding American airplane is understandable and justified. Perhaps the North Vietnamese remember the single American plane that flew over Hiroshima...