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...Look at Long Cheng. These were Sam Thong, headquarters for the U.S. aid operation in northern Laos, and Long Cheng, a top-secret, CIA-supported base for guerrilla operations against the Communists. Sam Thong, which serves as a center for refugee assistance as well as standard aid programs, has occasionally been opened to newsmen. Long Cheng, however, remained sealed until last week, when TIME Stringer Timothy Allman, a LIFE correspondent, and a French reporter paid an unauthorized visit. Allman's report...
After strolling 15 kilometers along the U.S.-built dirt road that links Sam Thong and Long Cheng, the three of us were picked up by a Jeepload of Meo troopers and driven the rest of the way to CIA-land. They assumed, of course, that we were agency men-no one else is allowed in. The first sight in Long Cheng was encouraging: a barbershop with a sign reading "Welcome...
...Government employees and the rest dependents. The real total is far higher, for the official figures do not include American personnel assigned for three-to six-month temporary tours of duty in Laos, or CIA men who spend their nights in Thailand but commute daily to Long Cheng. Many of them are Green Berets who have completed their Army service and signed up as "spooks." American casualties in Laos are equally difficult to assess. The Pentagon will say only that since 1961, the U.S. has lost 193 air crewmen-Army, Air Force and Navy-over Laos, chiefly while bombing...
...lack of analytic thinking helps explain the almost magical power individual words seem to have. In his concept of cheng ming, "the rectification of names," Confucius pointed out that names and terminology must be correct, otherwise "the people do not know to move hand or foot." This idea, suggest Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank in a joint book on Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form...
Yale coach Al Grassons's foil team includes Peter Cheng, last year's freshman captain, and sophomore John Choy. Neither should be much of a problem for Harvard's Tom Musliner, New England intercollegiate foil champion, and senior Takashi Iwasawa...