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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration thought. It was, however, immediately and forcibly reopened. No "ground combat deaths"? The Los Angeles Times last week ran Freelance Journalist Don Schanche's eyewitness account of the death of one U.S. military adviser, Captain Joseph K. Bush Jr., during an enemy attack on a Laotian army compound in February 1969. Confronted with Schanche's story, White House aides sought safety in semantics. Nixon had been accurate, protested White House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren. Bush was "behind the lines," and therefore a victim only of "hostile enemy action"; most assuredly, Warren said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Laos: Old War, New Dispute | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...eagerness to recoup the situation, the White House hurriedly revealed that at least 26 American civilians had died one way or another in the Laotian war. They included three members of the International Voluntary Service, a Peace Corps-style group supported in part by the State Department. The others worked for Air America, the CIA's Asian airline. Moving further, the President ordered U.S. commanders to report air and ground casualties incurred from hostile enemy action in the Laotian war separately from the Viet Nam totals, in which they had always been included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Laos: Old War, New Dispute | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...made clear that the U.S. has no clear-cut objectives in Laos except, in the President's words, "to protect American lives in Viet Nam and to preserve a precarious but important balance in Laos." An uneasy balance had been maintained from July 1962 until last fall, when Laotian government troops surprised themselves and most observers by pushing the North Vietnamese and their Pathet Lao allies off the strategic Plain of Jars. Last month the Communists struck back, and what worries many U.S. officials is that they might go on to attack hitherto sacrosanct Laotian government positions south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Laos: Detailing the Commitment | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...past three years, TIME Correspondent David Greenway has covered the war in Southeast Asia. In this report from Vientiane, Greenway sums up the reasons behind the Laotian crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Anatomy of a Limited War | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...designated Pry Sumeen 677, a cryptonym derived from the names of three Indian families involved in black-marketeering in Saigon. The Pry Sumeen account has recently been active again, according to Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Last week he charged that money from a U.S.-backed fund intended to stabilize the Laotian currency (whose basic unit is the kip) turned up in the same account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Scandal of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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