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(OUTCUE: "..BILL MATNEY WITH THE PRESIDENT IN KEY BISCAYNE.") The North Vietnamese government has termed as "slanderous" Nixon's charge that it -- no the United States -- has escalated the fighting in Laos. Lani maintains it has no troops in Laos. Maryland Republican Senator Charles Mathias today charged North Vietnam has 50,000 troops in Laos, and could probably take over the country if they wanted to. /enate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says American involvement in Laos appears to be following the same pattern as it did in Vietnam: "first... aid, then legistic support, then air power, and then -G.I.'S. But, Mansfield said: "I donut think G.I.'S will go into Laos.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: President returns to white house],
script,
March 8, 1970, 10:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1333125/m1/3/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.