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.
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