Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communique issued in Washington and Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu said the thrust was aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and North Vietnam's supply and infiltration network in the Laotian panhandle...
...reason for the news blackout appeared to be political rather than military. According to a report from Vientiane in the Washington Star, the Allied incursion into Laos was based on a secret agreement between South Vietnam and rightwing Laotian generals...
Confronted by shouting newsmen on Capitol Hill yesterday morning, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird at first tried to ignore questions about the Laotian situation, and then stated only that no U.S. ground troops would be sent into Laos. "I want to make sure that we will not open any credibility gap," Laird said...
...George Aiken (R-Vt.), ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday that he had been briefed late last week by State Department officials on an impending massive sweep of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the vicinity of the Laotian border...
...Boston yesterday, some 800 people rallied in Government Center to protest the Laotian invasion. The demonstration, which was called by the National Coalition against War, Racism and Repression, later moved through downtown Boston to the main office of the New England Telephone Company, where a brief sit-in was held...