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...Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said Friday that if the disputed 1968 "understandings" for halting the bombing of North Vietnam are "thrown out, then the bombing of the North would eventually follow...
Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the committee, and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), former secretary of the Air Force, sharply disagreed with Laird...
...Laird also disputed charges that the public had been misled over reconnaissance flights in the North and the purpose of the raid on the Son Tay prison compound there. He was appearing before the committee to defend an administration request for $340 million in supplemental military aid this fiscal year to several nations including Cambodia...
...Fulbright told Laird he thought that President Nixon's broadened bombing policy outlined Thursday night indicated that the Administration now seeks settlement of the war "through the application of superior force on North Vietnam...
...Laird replied that the war policy continues to be "based upon our desire for success in the negotiations" with the alternative of ending U. S. involvement through the Vietnamization program. He also said that U. S. air activity over North Vietnam is "substantially reduced" from that of 1969 despite recent "protective reaction" raids and the President's warnings of further sorties...