Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile. Secretary of State William P. Rogers announced in Washington yesterday that U. S. troops remaining in Vietnam after May 1 will not go into combat...
...Dispatches from Vientiance reported intensified Communist pressure against Long Chen, the center of U. S. Central Intelligence activities in Laos. Gen, Vang Pao, leader of the CIA-supported Meo tribesmen, flew to Vientiane to plead for reinforcements and more U. S. tactical air support...
Rogers' statement-prompted by word from the White House that only 40,000 to 50,000 of the U. S. troops in Vietnam will remain in the combat zone after that date-appears to be consistent with the current American strategy of Vietnamization and increased...
...knowing whether speculation about American plans to divide Asia is likely to be true; the important point is that it cannot be laughed away as impossibly grotesque. Secret government policies are believable even-when they are incredible. American soldiers last week in Detroit stated that U. S. troops have been on the ground in Laos since the fall of 1969. But the war has become the plaything of a government clique which makes decisions, implements policy, and announces or hides information without the necessary responsiveness to the people or to other nations. Will the U. S. invade North Vietnam...
...nation can accept what the U. S. government is doing to the peasant people of Indochina-or any other people-and long survive. Moral or spiritual power is the earmark, the distinguished characteristic of a human being. Once this is destroyed, a people are no longer humane. We are nearing that point now. This I feel deep down inside...