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...throng of young men in black and red war paint charged drunkenly through the explosions and drifting smoke. But for all the smell of gunpowder and the rockets' red glare, Vientiane was not being stormed by the Communist Pathet Lao...
...country only slightly larger than Malaya. Just across the 17th Parallel lies Communist North Viet Nam, which eagerly sends men and munitions down jungle trails to the south. Beyond North Viet Nam lies Red China, and to the west, sharing a 150-mile jungle border, lies chaotic Laos, where last week the Reds took another stronghold. In Laos, U.S. policy appears exactly opposite that in South Viet Nam. The border is held by the Communist Pathet Lao, and Soviet transport planes daily land supplies at Tchepone. close to the frontier. It is madness, argues Columnist Joseph Alsop among others...
Risky Gamble. Just a year ago, when the U.S. finally persuaded the Soviets to accept a cease-fire in Laos, Washington gambled heavily on a long-shot bet: better to rely on Russian guarantees of a neutral Laos than go on fighting a war that could not be won. The Red Pathet Lao forces, aided by Communist North Vietnamese, controlled half of Laos, and the Royal Laotian Army seemed unable to nrevent the Reds from overrunning the country (which so far has received $450 million in U.S. aid). The U.S. decided to abandon Phoumi's anti-Communist regime, which...
...jungle surrounding the Pathet Lao stronghold on the Plaine des Jarres, Meo guerrillas also successfully harass the enemy. Even the regular army occasionally shows up well: last month 100 outnumbered government troops fought their way to a village under attack by the Pathet Lao, turned defeat into a victory...
...anti-Communist commander of the Royal Laotian army, was delighted with the stalemate and did all he could to prevent the princely meeting. His reasons: he faces almost certain loss of his post as Defense Minister under a coalition government, and he generally distrusts the idea of a neutral Laos. Phoumi argues that the Geneva accord is a trap to get U.S. troops out of Laos, while the Red cadres from North Viet Nam will simply melt into the countryside, later return to the attack. The U.S. is in the difficult position of trying to back both a neutralist course...