The Los Angeles Times reported on March 15. 1970. that the numbers of nonAmericans employed in Laos by the United States "numbers in the thousands." Many are employed in combat roles and can be "described as mercenaries." As in the Vietnam escalationSays the L.A. Timesthe American Involvement has been a steady removal of restraints. At first there were only clandestine Americans working in remote areas with progovernment tribal guerrillas. Then military men in mufti were assigned to Laos as military attachesuntil there were almost as many attaches attached to the U.S. Embassy here as in all the other embassies of the world. In Laos more than 300.000 refugees have been produced as a result of warrelated activities. Thats onefifth of the population. Between 1966 and 1969.
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