Word: trooped
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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...
...officials in Saigon said last night that the South Vietnamese push is being given full U.S. combat support, including tactical fighter-bombers, helicopter gunships and troop-carrying helicopters. They said medical evacuation helicopters and logistic support will also be provided...
...apparent failure of the U.S. bombing raids to cut the Communist supply lines produced the necessity for this week's ground invasion of the region. It is not clear, however, how a brief Allied strike into Laos will curtail troop and supply movements for any length of time...
Thus the Laotian experience suggests one important element of U.S. strategy for the whole of the Indochina war: as public pressure at home forces further troop reductions, air power is the one cheap and reasonably effective way of stemming the revolutionary tide in the countryside...
...Americans have been listed as nonhostile fatalities v. 44,268 killed in action. Battle casualties continue to subside; last week's total of 27 dead was the lowest weekly total in five years. But over the past year the Army's mortality rate per 10,000 troops from nonhostile causes has risen by 27%, from 10.4 to 13.2. What is most disturbing is that the rate was increasing just as overall troop strength was being reduced...