Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam ???? 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. Nerthern 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...
...areas, the Parrot's Beak and Fishhook havens northwest of Saigon. By week's end, as half a dozen new task forces were hurled into the border war, the sweeps had spread south as far as the Mekong River and north to the highlands near the Laotian border. What started as a two-front foray was now a campaign engaging 40,000 troops along 600 miles of the frontier...
...pointed out that U. S. bombing of northern Laos-the region controlled by the Pathet Lao, the Laotian national liberation front-has escalated sharply since the limitation of air strikes on North Vietnam. "The bombers merely shifted their targets to northern Laos," he said...
...crossed into Cambodia for the second time in one week: this time, they had been accompanied by American advisors, equipment, and tactical bomber support. In recent weeks, Nixon had came under heavy Congressional fire for his escalation of the conflict in Laos, and criticism of the President's "Laotian strategy" reached its peak with the embarrassing revelation that, contrary to the Administration's contention, one American advisor and twenty-six American civilims had been killed in ground conflict with insurgent forces in that country...
...surface, it appeared that Nixon's goal in ordering troops across the border was to destroy the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong s??les that ?? just inside Cambodia, from the Gulf of Siam to as far north is the Laotian border. But the aimlessness that characterized the first several days of the American operation suggests strongly that the U.S. command had more clandestine goals in Cambodia than Nixon was willing to acknowledge. It seems likely, in fact, that a primary goal of the invasion was to provide support for the right-wing military junta that seized power in Cambodia...