Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely silent victims, have been killed, injured or rendered homeless. In South Viet Nam alone, there have been an estimated 1,050,000 civilian casualties, including 325,000 dead, since 1965. Reliable figures on civilian losses are not available for Cambodia, but it is estimated that 10,000 Laotian civilians have been killed and 20,000 injured since the heavy air war over Laos began in early...
...some 700,000 people have been displaced since 1962. Many fled from their homes last year when North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces recaptured the Plain of Jars after ten days of fighting. Others have been driven from their villages by U.S. bombs. The terror of the Laotian bombings has been reflected in a series of refugees' drawings collected by Fred Branfman, formerly of the International Voluntary Services (see page...
...bombing has produced 500,000 refugees in Laos alone. The use of massive and repeated air strikes by B-52's, the creation of free-fire zones (in which anything that moves is regarded as fair game), and the chemical defoliation of millions of acres of South Vietnamese and Laotian jungles and croplands, have caused massive disruptions in the social fabric of South east Asia...
...performance since 1968, when the U.S., in the shaky days after Tet, began pressuring the cocky pilot-politician to maintain at least a semblance of harmony with Thieu. But plainly Ky considers himself grounded no longer. In recent weeks, he has opened up on corruption ("beyond control"), on the Laotian operation ("our Dienbienphu"), on Vietnamization (Saigon's U.S.-supplied warplanes are suitable only "for women"). Richard Nixon's withdrawal program? Only last fall, Ky had been scoffing that a fixed pullout date "doesn't make any sense," but last week he called for total U.S. withdrawal...
McCloskey is greatly upset by what he believes to be the stepped-up use of firepower in the war, by the notion that "somehow we can save face by killing more Cambodian,Vietnamese and Laotian civilians." He does not accuse the Administration of falsification of the facts on the war, but of "willful deception of the American people" by the selective disclosure of facts. An old friend of Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, he has five times attempted to communicate his feelings to the President, once in a hand-delivered letter. He was a House co-author of the bill repealing...