Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongman, goateed General Nguyen Khanh, took the occasion to make a second grass-roots tour, this one to mountainous central Viet Nam. At a village of montagnard tribesmen, Khanh let his feet be ceremonially washed in rice wine and buffalo blood. At a bleak infantry fort guarding the Laotian frontier, Khanh trotted out three sparsely clad Saigon cabaret cuties to put on a show, then announced an even greater morale booster-a 20% pay raise for privates and corporals...
...last week a T-28 fighter-bomber flown by a U.S. Air Force captain and his Vietnamese crewman crashed on a dive-bombing run southwest of Danang, near the Laotian border. When two UH-34 Marine helicopters, carrying a search-and-rescue party, fluttered into the guerrilla-infested area, both choppers crashed. The craft lay 1,000 yds. apart, one in a river, the other across a ridge in the jungle; whether they were shot down was not clear. Braving heavy guerrilla fire that injured three more marines and killed another Vietnamese crewman, more rescuers reached the scene, found...
...State Department believes, then there is hope that East and West may ultimately be able to settle other issues. Though Harriman is empowered only to negotiate a test-ban agreement, he expects to "explore" other cold war problems, such as Berlin and Russia's failure to enforce the Laotian neutrality pact. On those matters Khrushchev so far did not appear to budge. Talking to Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak in Kiev last week, Khrushchev said: "Berlin is the foot that Kennedy has in Europe. Every time I want to, I'll stamp...
Locked Briefcases. Kong Le is a magnet for some of the most idealistic men in Laos. Short (5 ft. 1 in., 115 Ibs.), quiet and good-natured, he neither drinks, smokes nor gambles and is fanatic about health, honesty and cleanliness. He shares common Laotian superstitions, such as wearing a "magic" ring and a wrist amulet to placate the phi (spirits, evil or otherwise). Without personal ambition, Kong Le says that "when Laos is free," he will go home to his village and become a farmer...
...field, he shares his tent with three officers and four enlisted men. They mess together around a campfire, sing sad Laotian songs or dance the graceful lamvong, while Kong Le, holding two pet hamsters in his lap, looks on. His possessions are few: a desk, a footlocker, a transistor radio (gift from the U.S. ambassador), and five locked briefcases, which he keeps under his bunk. Occasionally he unlocks one to take out not confidential papers but a handkerchief and a pair of socks, and then carefully relocks...