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More immediately, the renewed military concentration on Laos is bound to have a complex impact on the future of Indochina's intertwined nations. For one thing, it will certainly affect the peace talks that have dragged along for nearly a year between the Communist Pathet Lao (who have demanded a cessation of U.S. bombing in Laos) and neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma (who refuses to ask the U.S. to stop the bombing until Hanoi pulls its estimated 50,000 troops out of Laos). Souvanna has been under severe pressure from right-wing elements in Laos to scuttle the peace talks...
...other war in Laos is the war between the Pathet Lao guerilla forces and the central government in Vientiane. In some respects this war resembles the conflict in South Vietnam, pitting a right-wing army that is virtually a creation of the United States against a popular leftist insurgency with a strong nationalist identification. There is a stark difference between American strategies in Laos and Vietnam however; in Laos, the single basic element of U.S. policy has been and continues to be massive aerial bombardment of the civilian population...
During the early months of the Nixon administration the bombing of Pathet Lao villages and installations was further intensified, until U.S. bombers were making as many as 800 raids per day against what appears to have been primarily civilian targets. Predictably, a massive flow of refugees began heading out of the rebel zones towards the safety of the Government-held areas...
...objective of the invasion would be to sever the Ho Chi Minh trail leading from North Vietnam through Laos into South Vietnam. The jungle trail is the main route for reinforcements and supplies being transmitted from North to South Vietnam. An additional objective would be to relieve the forces of Premier Souvanna Phouma in Laos, Souvanna said on Sunday that he was convinced that the North Vietnamese are planning a general offensive against Laotian government positions, weakened by constant warfare with Pathet Lao forces since...
...Consider Laos. It is no secret any longer that the U.S. is today deeply involved in an undeclared war there, allied with the supposedly neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma against the North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao. Yet only after Senator Stuart Symington's Foreign Relations Subcommittee looked into the matter, against the wishes of the State Department, did the American public learn in detail how U.S. aircraft based in Thailand were bombing northern Laos, the CIA was guiding the operations of Meo tribesmen, and the U.S. was providing millions in military assistance to Souvanna Phouma-all clear...