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...those polled said they are opposed to sending military and other aid to El Salvador, regardless of who wins the election there. Despite arguments to the contrary advanced by the Administration and other observers, 74% felt that U.S. involvement in El Salvador could "turn into another situation like Viet...
...served Richard Nixon as Secretary of Defense, lived by the rule that a wise man never says no to the inevitable and rarely encounters a situation that cannot be turned in some way to his advantage. In 1970, for example, a helicopter-borne rescue team penetrated North Viet Nam's air defenses but found that its quarry-U.S. P.O.W.s held at the Son Tay prison camp-had been moved to parts unknown. In the Pentagon, Laird looked at the men around him, shattered by the failure of the mission, and ordered in to rush out and extol American...
...Soviet Union has consistently denied its involvement in chemical warfare. The Soviet news agency TASS denounced the State Department report as "dirty lies," and pointedly noted that the U.S. had used poisonous herbicides (including the controversial Agent Orange) during the Viet Nam War. The Soviets have also accused the U.S. of supplying Afghan rebels with chemical weapons and of preparing to use them against Cuba and the rebels in El Salvador...
...formally asked the United Nations to investigate its yellow-rain charges; last November the U.N. sent an eight-member team to interview refugees in Thailand. The team was denied visas to Laos and Viet Nam and for complex diplomatic reasons did not try to make on-site inspections in Cambodia. Not surprisingly, the hamstrung investigation found no evidence to "prove or disprove the allegations." Even so, the U.N. team reported that refugee accounts "could suggest a possible use of some sort of chemical-warfare agents" and recommended that the inquiry continue. The team visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan...
Some U.S. scientists, too, argue that the case is not yet conclusive. Employing a peculiarly exact figure that recalled the illusory body counts of the Viet Nam War, the State Department study alleged that at least 6,504 had been killed by chemical attacks in Laos. Asked how that precise number could be confirmed with out autopsies, a spokesman for the department answered that the figure was meant merely to show the number of deaths that it had corroborated by outside evidence...