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The Dying Frangipanis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Tran Van Dinh
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A Reuters dispatch datelined Hong Kong, May 24, 1972, relayed the following communique from the Pathet Lao News Agency:

The bomb tonnage released on the liberated zone in Laos in the first three years under the Nixon Administration is equal in energy to 150 Hiroshima type atomic bombs. On a per capita basis the bomb tonnage dumped on the liberated zone in Nixon's time is the highest in history and Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world.

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 15 , Issue 8 , August 1972 , pp. 12 - 17
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1972

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