FULBRIGHT OPPOSES GI USE IN LAOS

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940068-6
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
Document Creation Date: 
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date: 
May 21, 1999
Sequence Number: 
68
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Publication Date: 
May 1, 1961
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NSPR
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'''MNelease 1999/09/17 A-2 AND TIMES .f tP. f , ~( r 1 STATINTL' JseinLaos Aesoda ed trees i rain and conditions are right Chairman J. William Ful-, ' bright (D-Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday firmly opposed send- ing American troops Into Laos to stem the Communist drive there, But he said he would favor further' American military ac- tion In South Viet-Nam, Thai- land gr Burma if those nations request It. 'America faces a serious loss of prestige if Laos falls' to the Communist-led Pathet Lao rebels, Fuibright acknowl.- Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R0,0020d940068-6 he for sending In our troops, said. - "We must saek another solution and we are." Fulbright spoke out before a NBC television news panel (WRC-Meet thee Press) against a background of Communist success In Laos, Cuba, and South Viet-Nam, where gueril- las are threatening the pro- Western government. He said one of'the greatest failures of the prssent,Admin- istration had been Its failuie to inform the. American Poo- edged. pie of the crisis they fdee. "But I don't ttink the ter?, '?4 would hope the President weftiid, give some special at- teftidfl. to' informing us over televtdgn," Fuibright said. He should 'have some ed- ucational interviews to Inform aU '6f us. of the nature of the conditions ive confront and what should be done about th* & to "dager,, to do what eluded paying higher taxes if?