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...credibility of the optimistic official Pentagon and White House assessment of the Laos campaign received a jolt yesterday when the U. S. Command in Saigon quietly revealed that nearly half of the Saigon troops sent into Laos are now dead, wounded or missing in action. The figure was twice that given by the official South Vietnamese spokesman...
...U. S. Command also revealed that it believes Saigon's estimates of North Vietnamese troops killed by U. S. air action in Laos to be nearly four times higher than the actual figure. Saigon officials had been claiming that U. S. planes and helicopter gunships flying in support of ARVN troops had killed some 14,000 rebel troops in Laos. President Nixon had been emphasizing the importance of these North Vietnamese "losses" in recent statements, and Joseph Alsop, the ever-obliging hawk columnist, went so far as to treat his readers of two days ago to a lurid description...
Hanoi called the campaign that has pushed at least 10,000 of the original South Vietnamese force of 22,000 back onto home soil in the last three days a "great victory." The U. S. has lost its "biggest gamble," Hanoi declared today, Figures issued from Saigon headquarters showed that government forces had suffered close to 25 per cent casualties...
...list of speakers is headed by Bui Diem, South Vietnamese Ambassador to the U. S.; Anan Sandering Ham, Royal Thai Ambassador to the U. S.; and Dolph Droge, chief White House advisor on Vietnam...
...nation's oldest school of international affairs, Fletcher has a long his-tory of ties with the foreign policy establishment. It does work for the State Department, the Agency for International Development, and the U. S. Information Agency. Forty of the school's 225 graduate students are currently civilian or military employees of the U. S. government...