Word: lao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, by bombing the villages in the countryside, the U. S. has forced almost a third of the country into concentration camps around Vientiane. The rest are forced into the hills. Neither group can help the Pathet Lao by giving food to them. because they've all been forced from their farms...
...pointed out that U. S. bombing of northern Laos-the region controlled by the Pathet Lao, the Laotian national liberation front-has escalated sharply since the limitation of air strikes on North Vietnam. "The bombers merely shifted their targets to northern Laos," he said...
...said that indiscriminate U. S. bombing is driving the people into underground caves and tunnels or into refugee camps and urban slums. "The Pathet Lao is too strong to be defeat-ed any other way than by destroying the morale of the people," he said...
...President grappled with a decision about further withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Communists last week launched a new offensive in South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao continued a threatening drive in Laos. Simultaneously, the North Vietnamese managed to scare the precarious new government of Cambodia. In the U.S., there are signs of reawakening dissent over the war. They have appeared in the U.S. Senate and at the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee and in such unexpected places as the Massachusetts legislature and Governor's office...
Though a new Communist Pathet Lao peace plan was delivered to Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist but Western-leaning Premier of Laos, he decided to defer a decision until the Cambodian situation settles down. In any case, the prospect that anything solid may emerge from the Pathet Lao plan is slight. As a precondition, the Communists insist that American planes halt their bombing in Laos. U.S. officials have indicated that the bombing will not stop, even at Souvanna's request. As Secretary of State William Rogers noted last week: "If North Viet Nam continues...