Indochina War Week Shows No American Combat Deaths
UPI report notes that in Indochina last week there were no American combat deaths. U.S. command officials provided the figures amid ongoing operations and consultations with allied forces.
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1972
Page
8
UPI report notes that in Indochina last week there were no American combat deaths. U.S. command officials provided the figures amid ongoing operations and consultations with allied forces.
An archival note records that on Thursday the bat death event occurred for the second time since March 1983. The brief item cites prior incidence and marks the ongoing concern in the area regarding bat fatalities.
Senator Alett Cranston voiced doubt about achieving peace in Vietnam despite disclosures and hopes. He warned that on election day this year Richard Nixon may still claim a path to ending the war, with Kissinger not promising peace by October 31 and President Nixon delegating power to Theil.
Washington figures show the Vietnam War cost at least 1.3 million lives over the past decade with detailed tallies for American combat and noncombat deaths, South Vietnamese military deaths, allied losses, and wounded. Estimates place total casualties in Laos and Cambodia as unknown. The financial cost to Americans reaches about $103 billion since 1965.
Kissinger said a Vietnam peace may be near and that the outline under which it could be achieved matches a Foreign Affairs article he wrote in January 1969. He foresaw a cease fire with South Vietnam shaping a coalition later, through direct talks with the Viet Cong, with international supervision of a democratic election.
President Nixon will speak on farm policy in a paid radio address at 8 07 p m today. The White House said this will be the sixth campaign radio broadcast in his bid for a second term. NBC CBS and Mutual will carry the speech.
Governor Reagan told reporters U S officials believed North Vietnamese would act once convinced McGovern would not win the presidency He cited briefings on foreign missions and said antiwar sentiment in America kept Hanoi hopeful He argued Nixon would then have a freer mandate to act.
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