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...COULD close my eyes," said Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington last week, "and as I listened to those briefings, I could hear the same thing I heard in Saigon five years ago." What Symington and other war critics thought they detected was another new upsurge in the Indochinese war, caused, paradoxically, by the Administration's complex efforts to extricate the U.S. from Viet...
...Laotian border. The presumed goal: to dislodge the enemy from his sanctuary and interrupt a heavy flow of supplies, as was done in Cambodia last spring (see THE WORLD). An evident further goal: to reduce Communist pressure on the regime of Cambodian Premier Lon Nol. Such a campaign, pitting Saigon's forces against North Vietnamese regulars and other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could close the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...State William Rogers said that the U.S. would be justified in supporting that kind of attack in Laos with airpower. As he spoke, heavy U.S. air raids in the area continued, ostensibly aimed at North Vietnamese supply and infiltration routes. Earlier, U.S. bombers and helicopters provided massive support for Saigon's troops in Cambodia. A group of G.I.s working in civilian clothes turned up last week at Phnom-Penh airport. Their mission was innocuous and brief-the removal of damaged American helicopters. Increasingly, such incidents aroused an anxiety that, despite the anticipated end of American combat engagement in Viet...
...pose a threat to South Viet Nam's I Corps. the northernmost military region. If they continue to establish supply lines and depots through the Laotian panhandle and northeastern Cambodia, they will be in a position to strike hard at II Corps (the Central Highlands) and III Corps (Saigon's hinterland). The threat to withdrawing U.S. troops, according to this line of speculation, would be great...
...McLemore, a black Army private charged with killing a white G.I. in Viet Nam. But a far broader issue soon emerged: McLemore's civilian lawyers claimed they could not defend him adequately because they had been prevented from communicating with him. At a recent military hearing in Saigon, McLemore's attorneys from the Lawyers Military Defense Committee documented an almost incredible story of how the Army had sabotaged their organization...