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...Suppressive Fire." Last May, with the Red Pathet Lao on the offensive, the U.S. began flying reconnaissance flights over Laos. Time after time, the)missions carried them to Ban Ban (which in Laotian means Village of Villages), a tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...allowed to accomplish it in its own way. Last week, for the first time, it got its wish. The tactical objective of the strike near Ban Ban was confined solely to Laos. The bridge over the Nam Mat was instrumental in maintaining the flow of Red supplies to the Pathet Lao-the stretch of Route 7 that was hit is too distant to form part of the Ho Chi Minh trail to the south. But the demonstration of U.S. power would undoubtedly have its positive psychological effect in South Viet Nam, where there is concern that the U.S. might pull...
...quietly as their bellowing engines will permit, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets have been flying reconnaissance missions over Laos since last May. Their purpose is twofold: to keep an eye on the Communist Pathet Lao, who have been relatively passive lately, and to see who or what is filtering down from North Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos...
...LAOS: three-fifths gobbled up by the Red Pathet...