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Along the jungle battlefront in Laos, not much was happening. Soldiers lounged barefoot within stockades built of sharpened bamboo stakes-thought to be protection enough in a country where the elephant charge has fallen out of fashion and the tank has not yet been introduced. But the cold-war clamor was as loud as ever. The U.S. last week gave the royal Laotian army four T-6 trainers, a lumbering plane that is nonetheless the hottest thing Laotian pilots can handle. They flew them north into the Communist-held countryside, wildly firing .30-cal. machine guns and 5-in. rockets...
Under its new anti-Communist government, Laos got off to a shaky and cautious start last week. In the capital city of Vientiane, ravaged by three days of bitter fighting, homeless refugees poked about the smoldering bamboo ruins. Most utilities and water mains were knocked out of commission. The city's main hospital, jammed with 500 wounded, and desperately short of water, tapped the swimming pool at the nearby U.S. embassy residence. When U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown held a public distribution of rice flown in by the U.S., he was rushed by a hungry mob and had to flee...
...that the Pathet Lao controls. As Vientiane counted its dead (an estimated 200), TIME Reporter James Wilde cabled: "The streets were littered with broken glass, shattered bricks, mangled cars, shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks were stained with blood." On the heels of Kong Le's retreat, Premier Prince Boun Oum drove into Vientiane and sent out an appeal for U.S. aid for his ravaged capital...
...greater willingness to negotiate would not substantially improve relations, he stated. Nonetheless, such action would demonstrate to the rest of the world that the "element of irrationality" lies in the Peiping government. The United States must take down its "nylon curtain," Lindsay said, in order to make the bamboo curtain more conspicuous...
...dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces a wedding, a birth, or the grand opening of a new noodle store...