Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge came up with a surprise. Months ago he had ordered his staff to pore through the thousands of pages of Security Council proceedings in search of a model for a veto-proof resolution. Owing to Lodge's foresight, the U.S. was ready when the Laotian case unexpectedly came before the Council...
...pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China and the barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos has no railroad. Except for jungle paths, navigable rivers like the 1,200-mile...
Though their relaxed attitude toward sex shocks some Westerners,* most visitors agree that the pleasantest thing in Laos is the Laotian people. Laotian girls have oval faces, high cheekbones, blue-black hair, shyly flirtatious eyes, and the world's smallest waists. The men are short-statured, sturdy-legged, even-tempered and given to such amiably negative remarks as "There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their...
...half the population of Laos is thought to be made up of non-Laotian tribesmen-the Meo, Kha. Lu, P'hunoi and a dozen others like the Black Thai, White Thai and Red Thai, who take their names from the color of their clothing. Few of the tribesmen have much love for the Laotians who rule in Vientiane; some do not even know that the Kingdom of Laos exists...
Fifty years of uneventful French rule were followed by Japanese occupation during World War II and a brief resistance to the French return. During the seven-year Indo-Chinese War between the French and the Communist Viet Minh, however, most Laotian rebels stayed prudently in exile, returning only to take over the government when Laos was granted autonomy...