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...drive against South Viet Nam, part of an overall, constant movement to infiltrate and encircle the whole area (see map). The Viet Cong guerrillas get their seasoned cadres and supplies from Communist North Viet Nam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which parallels the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. There is no interference from Laos, which may even be a supplier, since daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet Lao army. Neutral Cambodia is apparently too weak to police its own frontiers. Should...
Weakened Bands. Unlike their easygoing Lao neighbors (and fellow Buddhists), Burma's soldiers are willing and able to fight, despite the Buddhist scruple against killing. Buddhism is full of loopholes for those who chose to find them: who, for instance, is to blame if a fish dies after the fisherman has rescued it from the wetness in the river...
...year 220 B.C., the teachings of Lao-tse had taken root, Confucius had propounded his doctrine of the "superior man." and the artists of China had become masters of pottery, of glassware, of porcelain and jade, and of sculpture. By that year the head of the powerful state of Chin, which ruled in the west, had risen up against his neighbors and conquered the land that has borne the name of his state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous...
MAAG men fight in the sputtering jungle war of Laos to save what is left of $350 million worth of U.S. aid. So far, 24 U.S. military men and civilians have been killed or are missing, and according to the U.S. embassy in Laos, "a considerable number" have been injured. Among the MAAG men who have survived the perils of duty in Laos is U.S. Army Captain Carl J. Nagle, 33, a tough product of U.S. Special Forces (guerrilla warfare) training. Earlier this month, he and his helicopter crew of three were shot down by Pathet Lao gunfire while...
...rescue helicopter. "Nobody enjoys an experience like that," said Captain Nagle, "but that is what you're trained to meet." And last week he was right back on the job. He had reached the Meos at last, was teaching the tribesmen new techniques for fighting the Communist Pathet Lao rebels...