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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...
...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 of how some...
...Because the South Vietnamese mission to the U.N. was "moving too slow," Teodoru turned early last summer to the Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations, which he called "a private organization that Vietnamese and American businessmen in Saigon feed a lot of money into...
...Saigon headquarters reported 13,672 North Vietnamese killed since the Laos invasion began on February 9. South Vietnamese casualties were listed as 1145 dead and 4199 wounded...
Five thousand South Vietnamese troops- down from 22,000 at the height of the drive- still remain in Laos, Saigon headquarters said...