Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five points were: a call for a standstill cease-fire all over Indochina under international supervision; an Indochina peace conference to settle the Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian disputes: negotiations on a timetable for troop withdrawals; a political settlement reflecting the present balance of forces in South Vietnam; and the immediate release of all prisoners of war by both sides...
...Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U.S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U.S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then the U.S. bombed the tunnels, so that they had to move yet farther out and build more...
...SANCTUARIES. To replace their lost rest-and-resupply havens along the South Vietnamese border, the Communists have been carving a huge new sanctuary area out of the midsection of Indochina. They have taken control of Cambodia's four northeastern provinces and the Bolovens Plateau in the southern Laotian panhandle. In the process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also...
...rainy season ends. The U.S. has already stepped up B-52 raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Last week there were reports that a sizable force of ARVN troops and U.S. helicopters had been assembled near Kham Duc, a long-abandoned Special Forces camp near the Laotian border. But U.S. commanders insist that there are no plans for a Cambodia-style lunge into Laos. For one thing, negotiations are now under way between the Vientiane government and the Communist Pathet Lao, and a thrust into Laos could shatter whatever fragile chances exist for a truce ending...
...Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then the U. S. bombed the tunnels, so that they had to move yet farther...