Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Timeworn Device. When he sparked the attacks on India and Laos, Mao Tse-tung was clearly aware that he was casting a thundercloud over the Khrushchev-Eisenhower meetings. Equally clearly, that suited him fine. Fact is that Peking does not like the prospect, however slim, of a major relaxation of...
In the steamy Laos capital of Vientiane early last week, Defense Secretary Phoumi Nosavan 'bubbled with optimism over his army's successes in combating Communist guerrilla attacks on the northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. "In a month it will all be over," he predicted, adding only...
Pattern of Flight. In 2½ hours it was all over. Their captain killed, the surviving Laotian troops broke for the safety of the jungle. Three days later, 46 of the original 195 defenders of Xieng Kho straggled into the provincial capital of Samneua, 25 miles distant as the crow...
The pattern of flight at Xieng Kho was repeated all along the river. A single-engine Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong...
No Wire, No Trenches. At week's end thousands of Communist invaders were being ferried across the Nam Ma river on rafts and rubber boats powered by out board motors, and Red patrols pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to...