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...ragged coolie carriers, was swarming through the valleys and mountain passes as fast as their bare feet could carry them. They came in three columns, from the east, northeast, and north. There was plenty of room: Laos, one of the two kingdoms in the Associated States of French Indo-China, is as big as Oregon. In a fortnight they advanced almost 150 miles, leaving behind them French mountain-top outposts abandoned, surrounded, or in smoldering ruins, their tiny garrisons besieged, captured, dead or defected. At week's end the Communists had flowed around the Plaine des Janes, after giving...
...promised: "It is a matter of prestige." From Hanoi, the French began airlifting soldiers and equipment to Luang Prabang. Inside the Hanoi delta, Giap launched a surprise attack on Kien Airfield, clearly intending to delay air reinforcements to Laos. The Red guerrillas swarmed over the airfield, the finest in Indo-China and specially designed for jet aircraft, and dispersed the guard. They killed 20 Frenchmen, captured and executed Provincial Chief Trinh Nhu Tiep, burned the barracks, set off 3,000 tons of ammunition. A French counterattack killed 212 Viet Minh, captured 125, and regained control of Kien...
...only real opposition the Communists have met so far has been from the French. But with a large section of French Indo-China in their hands, the Communists will be in a position to exert heavy pressure on non-French neighboring countries where governments are weak and inexperienced...
...battle shaped up, King Sisavang Vong appealed to the U.N. to recognize the invasion of Laos as an act of external aggression, rather than as another phase of the Indo-China war, as the French prefer to regard it. His aim: to head off establishment by Giap of a Communist "Free Laotian Government" headed by Prince Souphranouvong, a distant relative. Meanwhile, the old King complained of rheumatism, and thought he might pay a visit to Paris. It would be a long time before the water was high enough for the fish to eat the ants...
...Though no U.S. troops fight in Indo-China, the U.S. is now paying one-third the cost of fighting this $1.5 billion-a-year...