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...SUPPORT: Though B-52s have been bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail in eastern Laos for four years, there has been only one B-52 raid over the Plain of Jars, intended primarily to warn the Communists against carrying their latest offensive...
...early 1950s, American funds flooded into Indo-China, but mostly to support the French in their ill-fated effort to defeat the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary army. Laos remained on the periphery until the Geneva cease-fire was signed in 1954. From that point, the U.S. presence in Laos grew, spurred by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' determination to prevent Southeast Asia from falling under Communist domination...
...accord was completely ignored. As the war in Viet Nam intensified, increasing numbers of North Vietnamese poured into Laos to defend the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chinese road builders appeared all over the north. U.S. advisers flocked to Vientiane, and American planes filled the skies-bombers to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and transports to ferry government troops around...
...Berets who have completed their Army service and signed up as "spooks." American casualties in Laos are equally difficult to assess. The Pentagon will say only that since 1961, the U.S. has lost 193 air crewmen-Army, Air Force and Navy-over Laos, chiefly while bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It is not known whether the missing men have been captured or killed...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...