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...have been widely advertised, but no effort was spared to give it a soft-sell atmosphere. The announcement came not from Washington but from South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. The American code name for the operation, Dewey Canyon II. was replaced by a Vietnamese name: Lam Son 719.* The switch was part of the coy effort to cast the invasion as an all-South Vietnamese effort, though it was initiated, planned and given the go-ahead in the White House, and was overseen by General Creighton W. Abrams. U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. The shift...
...Lam Son's initial objective was Tchepone, a small town 25 miles inside Laos (see map, page 26). Tchepone sits astride Route 9. where the Communist infiltration routes from North Viet Nam converge before fanning out again into South Viet Nam and Cambodia. From Tchepone, a large ARVN force could be ferried out for attacks on surrounding Communist facilities such as Base Area...
...South Vietnamese embassy announced the invasion minutes before Thieu issued his communique in Saigon. Thieu said his government has no designs on Laotian territory or internal politics and "will withdraw completely" at the end of the operation-code-named Lam...
December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...
...recent weeks, terrorists, revolutionaries and other troublemakers on the lam have gravitated to Socialist President Salvador Allende's capital from Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay. Currently, the chief revolutionary in residence is Jules Regis Debray, 30, the French Marxist (some say Maoist) and Castro confidant who was captured in Bolivia shortly before Che Guevara was killed there in 1967. When he was released a month ago by the leftist military regime that recently seized power in La Paz, Debray had served nearly four years of a 30-year sentence for aiding Che's abortive attempt to stir...