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...accept the Laotians as ethnic cousins, while the Cambodians are not a group to be greatly feared; after all, the Thais always got their slaves from Cambodia." Still, exploitation is rife in the U.N. camps. In April, 18 Thais were arrested for robbing refugees in a camp at Nong Khai that houses 26,000 Laotians. Camp officials encourage Laotians to find work outside the compounds. "Many factories in this country are looking for cheap labor," explains Nong Khai Governor Chamnarn Potchana. "While Thai workers want vacations and labor unions, refugees just want work...
...ammunition, they have made most of the mountainous area uninhabitable for Communist troops. Blia Ya Moi, a former leader of the anti-Communist forces, explained to DeVoss that "we have to make every bullet useful; one bullet for one life." Blia closely watches events in Laos from the Nong Khai refugee camp in Thailand...
...spring of 1946, an American OSS veteran named James Thompson paid a call on the governor of Thailand's Nong Khai province. "Come upstairs," said the governor. "I have a Lao prince you might like to meet." The governor's guest was Prince Souphanouvong, then a leader of the embryo Laotian independence movement and now titular head of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souphanouvong asked Thompson for pledges of U.S. support against the French colonialists who were then re-establishing their control over Laos. Their talk was, almost certainly, the first contact between American officials and independence-minded...
Even with the new planes, says President Nguyen Van Khai, 60, "we are short of planes, short of pilots and short of space." Air Viet has obtained Chinese crews along with the planes from Formosa, started to hire U.S. civilian pilots, and persuaded the Saigon government to lend it the part-time services of four Vietnamese Air Force C-47 pilots. Of course, the shortages could quickly end if peace came to the country. Unlikely as that seems in the foreseeable future, the company fears being caught with excess capacity, hence the cautious policy of chartering rather than buying planes...
...long wanted to revolt," said a young man named Nguyen Khai Diem. "But we started the uprising in earnest when we received the letter from Chairman Ho saying that freedom was being given back to the people, and we found that...