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...South Vietnamese expedition into Laos that aroused new suspicions. The spectacle of Saigon's best fighting men dangling from the skids-of helicopters in their haste to retreat clashed with Pentagon optimism about Vietnamization and the success of the Laotian mission (see THE WORLD). Some Administration officials, including Secretary of State William Rogers, had declared that the incursion would last weeks longer. When it ended abruptly and bloodily last week, many Americans were again entertaining the sort of doubts that Nixon has tried to quiet...
Sullen Skepticism. Nixon attempted to shift the credibility problem onto the shoulders of the media, arguing that, among other things, news coverage of the Laotian mission emphasized those South Vietnamese units that returned badly battered and not those that had fought more successfully. But then almost no reporters and photographers were permitted to cover the operation inside Laos anyhow, so the President in effect was criticizing the press for not entirely accepting the official version of the story...
President Nixon ordered that Lt. William L. Calley Jr. be released from prison immediately last night pending a review of his court martial, as North Vietnamese troops made another devastating attack on South Vietnamese outposts near the Laotian border...
Under a small tent held up by pieces of bamboo cut and tied together in much the same way Vietnamese huts are constructed in the countryside, eight members of an artillery support company discussed the Laotian operation during a rest period...
...optimistic assessments and on-the-scene reports have saddled the Administration with a credibility problem once again. Should Lam Son run into really serious trouble, Nixon would have a tough time justifying the decision to go into Laos. And, though China has not been drawn into the war, the Laotian incursion has, at the very least, done violence to the Administration's stated goal of a rapprochement with the Chinese...