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...Brink. At week's end a takeover by the Communist-led Pathet Lao seemed even more certain. The year-old coalition government teetered on the brink of collapse as five pro-American Cabinet members resigned their posts, leaving the Cabinet virtually in the hands of the Communists. The immediate reason for the resignations was the mounting pressure against the right from leftist student and labor groups. More basic, however, has been the right's increasing sense of futility as it has witnessed the coalition - which technically was supposed to divide power equally between the two factions - work almost...
...superior in the military structure is Senior General Van Tien Dung, 57, chief of staff of the North Viet Nam People's Army since 1953. A loyal Giap disciple and master logician, Dung is the youngest member of the Politburo of the ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party. He was born to a peasant family in Ha Dong province in the North, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and spent about five years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta...
...Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...
...deeply involved in the war in Southeast Asia. Starting in 1962, it organized and equipped an army in Laos to fight the Communist Pathet Lao. The army, which grew to 30,000 men, costs the U.S. at least $300 million a year, but Colby credits it with having prevented a Communist takeover...
...surprised that you overlooked these words of Lao...