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...performance since 1968, when the U.S., in the shaky days after Tet, began pressuring the cocky pilot-politician to maintain at least a semblance of harmony with Thieu. But plainly Ky considers himself grounded no longer. In recent weeks, he has opened up on corruption ("beyond control"), on the Laotian operation ("our Dienbienphu"), on Vietnamization (Saigon's U.S.-supplied warplanes are suitable only "for women"). Richard Nixon's withdrawal program? Only last fall, Ky had been scoffing that a fixed pullout date "doesn't make any sense," but last week he called for total U.S. withdrawal...
McCloskey is greatly upset by what he believes to be the stepped-up use of firepower in the war, by the notion that "somehow we can save face by killing more Cambodian,Vietnamese and Laotian civilians." He does not accuse the Administration of falsification of the facts on the war, but of "willful deception of the American people" by the selective disclosure of facts. An old friend of Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, he has five times attempted to communicate his feelings to the President, once in a hand-delivered letter. He was a House co-author of the bill repealing...
...political and psychological risks is that as long as Americans remain in Viet Nam even as advisers, the South Vietnamese can put part of the blame on the U.S. if things go awry in the war. There have already been recriminations over allegedly inadequate American support for the Laotian invasion. There is another risk as well: whatever happens, Americans will continue to pay an enormous emotional price for their involvement in Viet...
...enemy (TIME, March 1). During a sample period last year, military investigators found that confirmed or suspected heroin-connected deaths were occurring at a rate approaching one daily. Marijuana accounts for three-quarters of G.I. drug offenses in Viet Nam, but cheap (1/36th U.S. cost), extremely pure Laotian or Thai heroin is a tempting buy for men seeking temporary escape from the boredom and terror of war. It is less easily detected than pot. Moreover, G.I.s have developed the disturbing myth that if smoked-"snorted"-the drug is nonaddictive...
...Navy bomber on escort duty in the Laotian panhandle fired at a rebel surface-to-air missile site 30 miles northwest of the demilitarized zone and about a mile inside North Vietnam...