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Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, September 4, 1970 THE BATTALION Guest editorial Cambodia As time goes by. President Nixon’s decision to send American troops into Cambodia seems to be paying off, both tactically and strategically. The most important result to date is that the President’s prediction that destruction of the Communist sanctuaries would save American lives is being borne out. It has been about four months since the Americans and South Vietnamese moved into Cambodia, and two months since the Americans pulled out. Not enough time has passed for a conclusive appraisal of the over-all strategic success of the operation, but sufficient time has elapsed to reveal some tactical pluses and minuses that have accrued. Writing in U.S. News & World Report, Col. William C. Moore, an Air Force officer who has served as planner at Allied head quarters in Europe and with the Strategic Plans Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assesses the results to date and finds that the pluses have far exceeded the minuses. He points out that the Communists have been slow in re-establishing new base areas from which to conduct operations against South Vietnam, and that such bases, or sanctuaries, are extremely important to combat operations. They permit combat troups to rest, regroup and plan new attacks, and most importantly, to assemble in strength before commitment to battle. The newest strongholds apparently will be in Northeast Cambodia and Southern Laos, approximately 275 miles from Saigon. Enemy troops will no longer have a short night jaunt to their targets, as they did when their bases were in the Fishhook and the Parrot’s Beak. Getting troops to vital targets will be a long-drawn-out, complicated and hazardous undertaking. “Under these conditions,” Col. Moore paying off writes, “it is doubtful whether the enemy will ever again be able to mount a large-scale operation in the Mekong Delta, or for that matter, in the southern half of South Vietnam.” Even more heartening is the decline in casualties, ambush attacks, terror and sabotage attacks, and other combat opera tions by the enemy since the Cambodian bases were cleaned out. In the two months before the Cambodian operation, the weekly average of Americans killed in action was 108. During the May and June fighting in Cambodia, the average rose to 141. But in July and August, the two months following the withdrawal, the weekly average dropped to 70, a 35 percent decline since pre- Cambodia. True, there has been a 39 percent decrease in Communist troops killed in action in the past two months, also, but Col. Moore considers this a plus rather than a minus because it indicates an unwillingness by the enemy to engage in battle. These and other tactical gains point toward significant progress in the strategic sense, as well. Vietnamization is moving ahead, U.S. troops are being withdrawn on schedule, and draft quotas at home are the lowest since 1964. Col. Moore admits readily that the U.S., South Vietnam or Cambodia are not out of the woods yet and that the end of the monsoons may see an acceleration of enemy activity, accompanied by mounting casualties. Hanoi, having suffered a crippling blow to its ability to attack South Vietnam, may try to redress the setback by stepped-up offensives in Laos and Cambodia. The odds at present, however, do not favor early success in such a venture, the colonel maintains, and we can hope that he is right. - The Houston Post Dogs valuable tool in battle to curtail marijuana flow WASHINGTON <A>)_Specially trained dog’s are proving a major weapon against smugglers of marijuana and hashish, the Cust oms Bureau reports. Some of the animals already are on the job at Laredo and Hi dalgo, Tex., and at Miami and San Francisco. Their handlers have found the police dogs can sniff out in a minute marijuana and hashish so well hidden that skilled human beings may miss it in a pains taking search. "With expanded use of trained dogs I believe we can halt the entry of marijuana through the Mexican border,” Customs Com missioner Myles J. Ambrose said Wednesday. Twelve dogs and six handlers are being trained by the military dog facility at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. More classes are planned and eventually the dogs will be used wherever large volumes of pack ages of luggage pass through customs, a spokesman said. The dogs have been tested suc cessfully the past several years at Boston, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Antonio, Dallas, Laredo and Roma, Tex. “Tens of thousands of pack ages were opened during the trial period,” said Asst. Commissioner David C. Ellis. “In no case was any marijuana found in the pack ages which the dogs had passed free. Also, in no case did the dogs fail to detect control pack ages of illicit drugs planted among the mail parcels.” The Bureau said one dog at Laredo turned up five pounds of marijuana hidden so cleverly be hind an auto door panel that customs officers had found no indication of tampering. In Miami, a dog found 20 pounds of hashish hidden inside a wooden table. During a two-week trial, dogs found 18 illegal shipments of drugs, the bureau said. Training takes two months. Before graduation, dogs must pass tests which include finding marijuana concealed in food stuffs and disguised by odor making chemicals. In one test dogs must find and dig up a fruit jar containing marijuana and buried in a gravel road. tonight on the tube Numbers in ( ) denote chan- 8:00 3 (5) Friday Movie— 7:00 15 (12) What’s New nets on the cable. 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