Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing ended finally February 22 when a Laotian peace agreement was signed. But it seems eleven years was not enough. American bombers last week took off from airfields in Thailand, followed all too familiar flight routes, and once again bombed Laos...
...Defense Department said the raids could be resumed at any time. The Laotian people apparently cannot come out of their caves...
When I arrived in Hanoi one night in 1961 aboard a Russian military plane, the entire North Vietnamese Politburo was there to meet Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma. I got to shake the hands of Premier Pham Van Dong, General Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who told me in near-perfect French: "Please tell the truth." The second time was totally different. There were no honor guards and no flowers at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport-only a flock of black-suited men with black shoes, black socks and conservative ties...
...Indochina as a TIME reporter in 1970-71 seeking "a place where I could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...
...Communists claimed Saigon forces had committed 24,000 violations and had lobbed precisely 12,523 shells in Quang Tri Province. Saigon claimed 5,540 Communist violations since the agreement was signed. More seriously, the State Department revealed U.S. intelligence estimates of a new Communist troop build-up along the Laotian border, including the southward movement of tanks, and the setting up of SA-2 antiaircraft batteries at Khe Sanh...