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...documentation of American activities in Vietnam's neighboring countries during the past decade. The most astounding of these discussions concerns America's role in the Laotian guerrilla war. Those bombers which were pulled out of North Vietnam in 1968 and not used in the South were instead sent to Laos, where massive depopulation bombing had begun even before the fabricated Tonkin Gulf episode in August 1964. As Chomsky tells it, most of northern Laos is now a network of caves and underground tunnels where hundreds of thousands of farmers and peasants have been driven by American bombardment. The idea...
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...
...word, if the NLF, the Pathet Lao and the Red Khmers continue to make it difficult for the U.S. to commit genocide on the peoples of their countries, then Nixon will respond by committing it on North Vietnam...
...moment, U.S. commanders are most concerned about stopping Hanoi's efforts to restock its forces in Indochina. Supplies shipped south via the new infiltration routes in Laos and Northern Cambodia should start showing up in South Viet Nam in October, when the rainy season ends. The U.S. has already stepped up B-52 raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Last week there were reports that a sizable force of ARVN troops and U.S. helicopters had been assembled near Kham Duc, a long-abandoned Special Forces camp near the Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there...
...word, if the NLF, the Pathet Lao and the Red Khmers continue to make it difficult for the U. S. to commit genocide on the peoples of their countries, then Nixon will respond by committing it on North Vietnam...