Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buildup for the sweep into Laos began 10 days ago with the movement of 20,000 South Vietnamese troops and 9,000 U.S. troops into South Vietnam's northwest corner along the Laotian border...
...South Vietnamese embassy announced the invasion minutes before Thieu issued his communique in Saigon. Thieu said his government has no designs on Laotian territory or internal politics and "will withdraw completely" at the end of the operation-code-named...
Operations in the area of the Laotian border were shrouded in a six-day news blackout last week. Americans repaired and built bridges and airstrips, reoccupied the Khesanh fire base, scoured the countryside in search of nine North Vietnamese regiments, hit storage areas from the air and ground, and moved up to the Laotian border-all during official U.S. silence...
...weekend, apprehension intensified with reports of a South Vietnamese attack on Communist forces across the Laotian border. The presumed goal: to dislodge the enemy from his sanctuary and interrupt a heavy flow of supplies, as was done in Cambodia last spring (see THE WORLD). An evident further goal: to reduce Communist pressure on the regime of Cambodian Premier Lon Nol. Such a campaign, pitting Saigon's forces against North Vietnamese regulars and other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South...
...methods by which Nixon seeks to leave the field. While convincing the home audience that the U.S. is irreversibly quitting the war, the President must keep Hanoi sufficiently off balance to avert any military disaster until American forces are well clear. Thus the rationale for the Cambodian and Laotian air actions. What disturbs antiwar critics, though, is that the U.S. has increasingly put itself in the position of preserving the Lon Nol government...