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...strikes are adding strong support to the South Vietnamese infantrymen in what Saigon has termed their deepest and most important advance of the Laotian invasion...
...rally is being sponsored by the Committee to Defend the Right to Live, which was set up in Saigon by Vietnamese women. The committee says that it allies itself with the Saigon committee because "both the war and sexism foster dominance and oppression by the same white, male ruling elite...
...source in Saigon said, "North Vietnam has been placed on the defensive and has diverted large numbers of troops in defense of its supply lines as opposed to offensives...
...these factors, John Constable, HAC team member, was able to interpret birth statistics from Tay Ninh Provincial Hospital. This hospital serves a heavily defoliated province, and "showed an average stillbirth rate in 1968 and 1969 of 68 per 1000 live births. During this same time, the Tu Do [in Saigon] rate was 27.5 per 1000 and that of the Army sample of the entire country...
...addition, using data from a U. S. Army study, the HAC found "a decided upward trend in stillbirths, moles, and deformities" in the Vietnamese countryside, excluding data from Saigon (where no spraying has taken place, of course). Nevertheless, the HAC is cautious in drawing any conclusions. A scientific approach remains to be developed, concludes the Commission's preliminary report, for "determining the amounts of herbicide residues in the diet and in human tissues, waiting for future research to determine the implications, if any, of whatever levels are found...