S. Greenway contains the following quote: As the war goes on. so does the misery inflicted upon the Laotian people. Refugees from the PathetLao zone all tell harrowing tales of entire villages living In caves and holes In the ground. farming their rice by night in order to escape the bombing. From all reports. the wholesale bombing of civilian centers in the Pathet Lao areas goes beyond anything the North Vietnamese have experienced. (Emphasis added). In addition to these press reports. there has been specific corroboration of U.S. bombing by U.S. personnel in Laos. Our colleague from Santa Clara may not have read Mr. Ronald J. Rickenbachs testimony before the Senate Refugee Subcommittee in May 1970. Mr. Rickenbach. a former AID employee testified: While I served in Laos . . .
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