Mr. President. the credibility gap is again widening. Testimony by a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State before Senator KENNEDYS Subcommittee on Refugees last week. regarding the serious refugee problem in Laos. is being refuted. interestingly enough. by official Americans in Vientiane. Our Government here in Washington has claimed that American bombing operations in Laos have not contributed in any significant way to the movement of refugees from northern Laos. Yet. as reported by the Evening Stars Tammy Arbuckle from the Laotian capital. where most of the refugees are now camped: Americans here. most of them in middlelevel posts. recalled a joint U.S.-Lao operation. called Operation About Face. in August 1969 which. they said. bombed towns around the Plain of Jars area "out of existence." Mr. Arbuckle said that the United States accelerated the bombing of northern Laos after the American elections in 1968 and after "Phou Pathi. a radar station in the north fell to enemy hands." In May 1969. Mr.
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