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...strategic development of the week came along the Y-shaped network of railroad lines leading into and out of Hanoi (see map). Flights of Air Force Thunderchiefs and Phantoms shattered three rail bridges on the already-mangled Hanoi-Lao Kay line, chewed up 300 yards of track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking...
REPORTED TO BE ALIVE, by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. Prisoner-of-war horrors are only the setting for NBC Cameraman Wolfkill's personal account of his 15-month imprisonment by the Communist Pathet Lao. The real story lies in the details of a human being's contest with himself and his sanity while at the mercy of the merciless...
REPORTED TO BE ALIVE, by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. Prisoner-of-war horrors are only the setting for NBC Cameraman Wolfkill's personal account of his 15-month imprisonment by the Communist Pathet Lao. The real story lies in the details of a human being's contest with himself and his sanity while at the mercy of the merciless...
...date was May 15, 1961, the day following the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Laos. The place was a field in the middle of the jungle north Vientiane, the Laotian capital. In the helicopter were three Americans and a squad of Laotian right-wing soldiers. Before the day ended, the soldiers had fled, and the Americans were captives of the Communist Pathet Lao...
...prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos by tough North Vietnamese Communists, whose presence the Pathet Lao then denied-and still...