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Fifty years of uneventful French rule were followed by Japanese occupation during World War II and a brief resistance to the French return. During the seven-year Indo-Chinese War between the French and the Communist Viet Minh, however, most Laotian rebels stayed prudently in exile, returning only to take over the government when Laos was granted autonomy...
...desk. Its contents: a report on the Communist guerrilla bands swarming antlike out of Red China's puppet state of North Viet Nam into the Utah-sized nation of Laos (see FOREIGN NEWS). This "very dangerous" situation signaled the revival of full-scale guerrilla warfare in Indo-China for the first time since Red China agreed at Geneva in 1954 to stop it. The President, approving State's recommendations, cranked up machinery for stronger counterpressures against the Red thrust...
Laos (pronounced Lah-oze) is a faithfully Buddhist kingdom known as "the land of a million elephants," which five years ago was carved out of French Indo-China in the Geneva conference after Dienbienphu. It has Communists to the north of it (China), Communists to the east of it (North Viet Nam), and Communists inside it (the Pathet Lao). Only 18 months ago it seemed to be slipping inexorably toward Red rule. As the result of a queer, credulous armistice with its own Communist rebels, the Laotian government reserved two of its Cabinet posts for Communists and agreed to absorb...
Khrushchev's loud and boastful talk, as Washington saw it, was largely part of his running war of words that stretched as far back as his threats in the Indo-China crisis (1954) and Quemoy (1955). which were met firmly by the U.S. and did not lead to war. But in the midst of the cultural thaw, the parted-curtain mood, the flutter of peace doves, these threats had to be kept in mind as a continuing clue to Soviet policy...
...gaily colored streamers and lights hastily erected for the welcoming, it was a pretty dreary place that Sukarno had come to at the end of a two-month world tour. Once a well-ordered colonial city under French rule, Hanoi became a jittery, bordello-ridden citadel during the Indo-China war, but after five years of Communist rule has turned into a place where, says one frequent foreign visitor, "the only noise is the absence of noise. Nobody smiles. Not even the children laugh...