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...SANCTUARIES. To replace their lost rest-and-resupply havens along the South Vietnamese border, the Communists have been carving a huge new sanctuary area out of the midsection of Indochina. They have taken control of Cambodia's four northeastern provinces and the Bolovens Plateau in the southern Laotian panhandle. In the process, the Communists have gained access to large supplies of rice, fish and cattle, and last week's attacks on Kompong Thom and Skoun, two strategic cities north of Phnom-Penh, showed that they are intent on securing continued control of these new havens. They also...
...Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then the U. S. bombed the tunnels, so that they had to move yet farther...
...only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam ???? defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Nerthern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then the U. S. bombed the tunnels, so that they had to move yet farther...
...areas, the Parrot's Beak and Fishhook havens northwest of Saigon. By week's end, as half a dozen new task forces were hurled into the border war, the sweeps had spread south as far as the Mekong River and north to the highlands near the Laotian border. What started as a two-front foray was now a campaign engaging 40,000 troops along 600 miles of the frontier...
...pointed out that U. S. bombing of northern Laos-the region controlled by the Pathet Lao, the Laotian national liberation front-has escalated sharply since the limitation of air strikes on North Vietnam. "The bombers merely shifted their targets to northern Laos," he said...