Speech #920072310

I said yesterday that it seems to me regrettable when people espouse different views on an issue that one persons motives should be challenged and that one persons credibility should be challenged. The factual issue that we are intent on trying to determine is very simplewhether or not there has been bombing and indiscriminate bombing of villages in northern Laos. There were 3.500 villages and many were bombed and hundred of people so advised the U.S. Government. the USAID employees. the IVS volunteers. the U.S. Information service. In one survey. there were 213 refugees from 96 villages. In another there were 97. In another there were 30..