Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...washerwoman spy is but a tiny part of a vast, largely secret U.S., Vietnamese and Royal Laotian effort to detect, deter and destroy the primary funnel through which North Vietnamese men and materiel head for South Viet Nam. The Ho Chi Minh trail, a 200-mile "logistical wonder" according to U.S. officials, is a massive maze of roads, bridges, waterways and paths complete with primitive motels. In recent months its roads have been paved with crushed stone or topped with pressed laterite. Camouflages of bamboo and branch roof it over where the jungle canopy is balding. Bridges are often built...
...valley near Khe Sanh in the extreme northwest tip of South Viet Nam, only eight miles from the Laotian border and twelve miles south of the DMZ, North Vietnamese commanders thought that they had found a tactical situation that somewhat resembled Dienbienphu, where they inflicted the decisive defeat on the French in 1954. Before the Com munists discovered that they, and not the U.S. Marines, were to share the fate of the French, several fierce battles were fought up and down hills so worthless that they had only numbers (representing elevation in meters above sea level), not names...
...Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutrality was imposed by the U.S., Russia and the twelve other signers of the Geneva Accord of 1962, leaving Laos a tenuously tripartite land that is part Communist, Royalist and neutral. Premier by the grace of all three factions, Souvanna Phouma was far more candid than Sihanouk last week in touring his own troubled horizon...
...force. Even so, Laos does not want U.S. or any other Western help in the matter, "because this would mean more war for Laos, which has known little else since 1939." He said that all that Laos could do was already being done: daily bombing runs by the Laotian air force against traffic using the trail. What concerned the Premier more was the Pathet Lao threat to the rest of Laos. "The 15,000 Pathet Lao are a well-disciplined political party, the only political party in this country," he said. Still, much of their strength would evaporate, as would...
...provinces, they have been singularly fortunate in losing only two lives at Communist hands so far. One I.V.S.er, Peter Hunting, 24, was murdered from ambush by the Viet Cong in 1965. Another, Fred Cheydleur, 20, a Quaker from Philadelphia, was gunned down last week by Red guerrillas in the Laotian jungle. An expert logger, stonemason and mechanic, Cheydleur was a muscular (5 ft. 11 in., 195 lbs.), compulsively hard-working youth who became a pacifist, according to one of his teachers, "when he discovered his own ability to hurt other boys all too easily." Said Radio Moscow of Cheydleur...