Word: lao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wiliest guerrillas in the Communist Pathet Lao are Meos, who scamper by night over mountain slopes that would terrify the valley-dwelling Lao. On the pro-Western side. Colonel Vang Pao, a Royal Army Meo, has held stubbornly to a precipitous stronghold deep inside Communist territory, nicknamed "Happy Valley" by the U.S. pilots who must swoop down into it to land supplies...
Legend of Snows. The story among the Lao is that the Meos are really Eskimos, since they raise Huskylike white dogs, tell legends of great snows, and will live only above 3,000 ft. More probably, they originated in northern China and were gradually driven south. About 5,000,000 Meos are scattered through Southeast Asia, perhaps 250,000 of them in Laos. They hold a virtual monopoly on the growing of opium and hence are among the more affluent Laotians. They hoard their wealth in massive silver necklaces, worn by all Meo women. Unlike the Buddhist Lao, the Meos...
...side was ably represented by his half brother, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, who commands the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas. Souphanouvong pressed his points hard, and Boun Oum soon collapsed. Boun Oum agreed to merge the royal army with the Pathet Lao-though just how this could be accomplished while the Pathet Lao were still periodically storming army outposts back in Laos, nobody could explain. The three princes bucked to dreamy King Savang Vatthana the thorny task of picking a coalition government, a procedure that would effectively bypass the National Assembly, where Boun Oum still commands a strong anti-Communist majority. Boun...
Five royal army soldiers who had just escaped from the Pathet Lao reported last week that the Communists' prize exhibit for impressing villagers these days is a group of three captured Americans. They are shuttled from town to town and paraded through the streets, roped together with their hands tied behind their backs. The Laotians said they had seen the graves of two more Americans in a small village near the Plaine des Jarres...
...Pentagon confirmed that the story was all too probable. Four U.S. soldiers stationed with the Laotian army as PEO military advisers were lost when the Pathet Lao overran Vang Vieng ten weeks ago. Also missing are three helicopter crewmen and an NBC photographer who went down in a crash behind enemy lines and a Long Island contractor who disappeared on a hunting trip...