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...There were hints that B-52s-which last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
...resumption of U.S. bombing in Laos was described by Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson as a response to "a flagrant violation" of the Laotian cease-fire by the Communists. Washington officials said that the B-52s went into action after a North Vietnamese regiment led an attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina...
...bombing ended finally February 22 when a Laotian peace agreement was signed. But it seems eleven years was not enough. American bombers last week took off from airfields in Thailand, followed all too familiar flight routes, and once again bombed Laos...
...Defense Department said the raids could be resumed at any time. The Laotian people apparently cannot come out of their caves...
When I arrived in Hanoi one night in 1961 aboard a Russian military plane, the entire North Vietnamese Politburo was there to meet Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma. I got to shake the hands of Premier Pham Van Dong, General Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who told me in near-perfect French: "Please tell the truth." The second time was totally different. There were no honor guards and no flowers at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport-only a flock of black-suited men with black shoes, black socks and conservative ties...