Word: lao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past five years, the U.S. has poured $300 million in military and economic aid into primitive, soporific Laos to prop up a succession of anti-Communist governments and to help fend off the skulking guerrillas of the Communist Pathet Lao. About all that remains of that policy and all those millions is anti-Communist General Phoumi Nosavan, who is nursing his pride in southern Laos after taking a shellacking from Kong Le's para troopers...
Drift to the Left. At week's end, Premier Souvanna announced that a garrison of Phoumi's men at Samneua had fallen to the Pathet Lao. Not so, said Captain Kong Le. His own men, aided by Pathet Lao and local villagers, had taken Samneua. "I don't care about the ceasefire," added Kong Le, who apparently commands the only really effective fighting force in all Laos, and likes to see things done his way. "We will keep fighting until all the Phoumi men surrender...
...north and behind quite a few trees lurk the guerrillas of Pathet Lao, the military arm of the Laotian Communist Party. Pathet Lao bands are armed, trained and directed by Communist North Viet Nam, but their official leader is Prince Souphanouvong, the Premier's half brother...
Test for the Right. Last week the SEATO powers led by the U.S. were trying to end this three-way war by bringing pressure to reconcile Premier Souvanna and General Phoumi. Their argument: the only side winning in the fight is the Communist Pathet Lao. At first Phoumi proved stubborn, ignoring four telegrams from the King asking him to meet with the Premier's military representatives at the royal palace in Luangprabang. But the new month was approaching, bringing pay day for his troops, and U.S. aid, which normally covers the army's wages, goes only...
...party in this pageant was dead serious. As Premier Souvanna returned from his royal audience, Pathet Lao rebels crossed the Nam Ma river in force and threatened the northern provincial center of Samneua. The attack was headed by five Communist-led battalions reported to have crossed the northeastern border recently from Communist North Viet Nam. "This is a national crisis," cried General Ouane Ratthikoun, chief of the royal Laotian armed forces. "It is a time for unity." The U.S., which had long felt that Vientiane had not been awake to the danger in the north and thinks that Prince Boun...