Word: lao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Souvanna Phouma gave the Communists two seats in the Cabinet, and in return Souphanouvong agreed to integrate 1,500 of his 6,000-odd Communist troops into the royal army. The rest of the Pathet Lao army would be placed in "reserve status," and permitted to return to their native villages, there to create what unrest they could...
...brother in control of the Ministries of Planning and of Reconstruction and Urbanization. In these posts he will direct how and where a large part of the U.S.'s aid money (some $43 million this year) will be spent. Ironically, the other Cabinet post assigned to the Pathet Lao Communists was the Ministry of Religion and Fine Arts...
Often enough the importer does not bother to import the radios-he has them intercepted in Bangkok and sold at still higher profits. Sometimes the radios really reach Laos (marked with the universally recognized symbol of clasped hands in front of a U.S. flag). But before Laos' primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that...
Sporadic War. There is no question that Laos needs aid. Of the $43 million allocated for this year, about two-thirds is direct military aid for support of the army, which has been fighting to regain two northeastern provinces occupied by the Communist Pathet Lao forces after the Geneva conference. The basically pro-Western government of Premier Souvanna Phouma has shown itself increasingly aware of the extent to which both corruption and the artificial exchange rate are damaging both Laos and the U.S. attempts to aid it. Last week U.S. Ambassador J. Graham Parsons flew back from Washington...
...botched situation is largely the work of a small, fierce-eyed man with a bulging forehead named Truong Chinh-called "Little Uncle" in recognition of his role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...