Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon ordered that Lt. William L. Calley Jr. be released from prison immediately last night pending a review of his court martial, as North Vietnamese troops made another devastating attack on South Vietnamese outposts near the Laotian border...
Under a small tent held up by pieces of bamboo cut and tied together in much the same way Vietnamese huts are constructed in the countryside, eight members of an artillery support company discussed the Laotian operation during a rest period...
...blackboard-crisp terms favored by its Pentagon planners, the Laotian operation is deep into its third and final phase. Having slashed across some tendrils of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and choppered into Tchepone, South Viet Nam's troops are beginning to pull back to the border. As the withdrawal gathered speed last week, the question was increasingly asked: Was it worth it? The answer will not be known in full until the operation is over, but it can be partly determined by comparing the ARVN struggle in Laos with the invasion's original goals...
BUYING TIME. According to the U.S. Command, more than ten of the 30 North Vietnamese battalions in the Laotian panhandle have been annihilated; the enemy is said to have lost 11,176 men. General Creighton Abrams has said that he does not think that the North Vietnamese can now mount a major offensive in 1971, and possibly not until the spring of 1972. That, unfortunately, is the kind of expectation the Communists have explosively upset in the past, notably during Tet 1968. Even if Lam Son has slowed the Communist supply effort, it has done so only temporarily. If South...
...optimistic assessments and on-the-scene reports have saddled the Administration with a credibility problem once again. Should Lam Son run into really serious trouble, Nixon would have a tough time justifying the decision to go into Laos. And, though China has not been drawn into the war, the Laotian incursion has, at the very least, done violence to the Administration's stated goal of a rapprochement with the Chinese...