U.S. to spend $90 million to clear bombs in Laos
'VIENTIANE, Laos — President Obama on Tuesday said the United States would spend $90 million over the next three years on clearing unexploded bombs that it dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War. '
'Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. conducted 580,000 bombing missions over Laos, dropping some 270 million cluster bombs on the officially neutral country. '
'An estimated 80 million of the baseball-sized cluster bombs — nearly a third of those dropped — failed to detonate. '
'A secret, nine-year U.S. bombing campaign aimed at blocking supplies to Vietnam and fighting communist forces in northern Laos left tens of millions of unexploded bombs in the countryside. '
'Given our history here, the U.S .has a moral obligation to help Laos heal,” Obama said. '
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