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...draw on his own knowledge from a previous trip to South Viet Nam. On-the-scene reportage came from James Willwerth, who hitched a plane ride from Saigon to I Corps, where he viewed the situation at Khe Sanh and Lang Vei, a point about three miles from the Laotian border. By now the final elements were falling into place as cables arrived from Stanley Cloud, who had flown from Bangkok to Vientiane for the story from inside Laos. "Vientiane is a kind of convention center for those who wage war and intrigue in Southeast Asia," Cloud reported, "and Russians...
...land. Khe Sanh, where 6,000 Marines had endured a bloody 77-day siege in 1968, was a moonscape of shell craters flecked by twisted steel runway sheets and discarded shell casings. A few miles to the south, the Rockpile was overrun by weeds. On a bluff overlooking the Laotian border, the hulks of battered Soviet tanks still lay rusting at the Lang Vei Special Forces camp, where ten Americans and 225 South Vietnamese died in a single night of hand-to-hand combat...
Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright, (D-Ark.), also found little encouragement in Laird's and Rogers's repeated reassurances that the Laotian invasion was necessary for American troop withdrawal...
...meantime, the White House has sent over 600 editorial writers a Joseph Alsop newspaper column charging that Fulbright is "downright eager" for the Laotian operation to fail because it would prove he is right in opposing the action...
...Laotian Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, said that the Laotian government "deplored once again that foreign troops belonging to countries and governments that have pledged to guarantee and defend the sovereignty, neutrality and inviolability of Laos have chosen to deliberately use her territory as a field of battle...