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...Indochina as a TIME reporter in 1970-71 seeking "a place where I could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...
...Communists claimed Saigon forces had committed 24,000 violations and had lobbed precisely 12,523 shells in Quang Tri Province. Saigon claimed 5,540 Communist violations since the agreement was signed. More seriously, the State Department revealed U.S. intelligence estimates of a new Communist troop build-up along the Laotian border, including the southward movement of tanks, and the setting up of SA-2 antiaircraft batteries at Khe Sanh...
...relieved of their duties in Viet Nam, concentrated their power on Communist forces in Laos. The strikes were aimed at suspected concentrations of North Vietnamese troops. For their part, the North Vietnamese pulled troops off the Ho Chi Minh Trail and arranged them in offensive positions against the Royal Laotian Army. The most serious threat was to the junction of Thakhek, which was encircled by nine battalions of Communist troops...
There remains, moreover, the unanswered problem of the other wars in Southeast Asia. Last week the Laotian Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, predicted that fighting in his country would stop by mid-February. The Cambodian government announced a three-day cease-fire to give the Communists a chance to stop fighting if they wanted to. Cambodian President Lon Nol also made plans to participate in peace talks with the Khmer Rouge Communists and aides of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The prospects for a lasting peace in Laos and particularly in Cambodia, however, seemed at least as dubious as in South Viet...
...following selections are from Voices from the Plain of Jars. Life under an Air War,a collection of first hand accounts by Laotian peasants of American bombing raids near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The book has been compiled by an American journalist. Fred Branfman and was published last year by Harper and Row. Perhaps it can help us to hear the American bombers overhead...