Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political and psychological risks is that as long as Americans remain in Viet Nam even as advisers, the South Vietnamese can put part of the blame on the U.S. if things go awry in the war. There have already been recriminations over allegedly inadequate American support for the Laotian invasion. There is another risk as well: whatever happens, Americans will continue to pay an enormous emotional price for their involvement in Viet...
...enemy (TIME, March 1). During a sample period last year, military investigators found that confirmed or suspected heroin-connected deaths were occurring at a rate approaching one daily. Marijuana accounts for three-quarters of G.I. drug offenses in Viet Nam, but cheap (1/36th U.S. cost), extremely pure Laotian or Thai heroin is a tempting buy for men seeking temporary escape from the boredom and terror of war. It is less easily detected than pot. Moreover, G.I.s have developed the disturbing myth that if smoked-"snorted"-the drug is nonaddictive...
...page 55 of the colonel's prepared text, the second sentence from page 36, the third and fourth from 48, the fifth from 73, and the sixth from 88. In the rearrangement, Agnew contended, the opinions coming out of the colonel's mouth are actually quotations from Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma...
...prisoners of war-including downed pilots-will be released immediately "if the United States ceases its bombings and other interventions in Laotian affairs," Prince Soupanouvong, the Pathet Lao leader said Sunday in an interview published in a Swedish newspaper...
...Navy bomber on escort duty in the Laotian panhandle fired at a rebel surface-to-air missile site 30 miles northwest of the demilitarized zone and about a mile inside North Vietnam...