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WTOi Up.CLAIMS-NEUTRALITY-------In Vientiane, Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Pbouroa said If an actual invasion were underway he would protest to the Soviet Union and Great Britain, t; co-chairmen /. of theGenevd Convention-.on Laos. AtNorth Vletnadiese offensive in Laos had swept 25 miles past the government bastion of Muong Soul and threatened to cut the land routes between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, the royal capital to the north.The sweep covered rugged terrain over two provinces and was launched Jan. 30 to counter a “Significant Communist threat to Allied forces In South Vietnam's northern quarter,the command said.News of the drive, called Operation Dewey Canyon II, had been withheld for security reasons for six days under tfie most stringent news embargo of the Indochina War,The command said the troops reoccupied the abandoned Marine fortress of Khe Sanh and other outposts in the drive which stretched from the Demilitarized Zone DMZ southward to the A Shau Valley.The U.S. command said the drive wax aimed at breaking up Communist troop and supply buildups along the Laotian border “to facilitate continued withdrawal of U.S. forces and advance the VietnamlzatIon pro-eram .»
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Radford News Journal
Radford, Virginia, US
Thu, Feb 04, 1971
Page 7
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Gerald F.
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