Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as the troika-like International Control Commission of India, Poland, and Canada, which was set up to police Laotian neutrality, tried to restore the peace, it lost one of its three heads. Communist Poland recalled its ICC representative to Warsaw in the wake of vigorous U.S. protests that the Pole's "obstructionist tactics" and deliberate boycott of ICC field observation work were sabotaging efforts to maintain a cease-fire between the Neutralists and the Pathet...
...Korat are Thais." Communism is never mentioned; instead, the Reds constantly harp on the theme that the government has wilfully neglected the northeast, promise villagers a salary of $150 a month (v. Thailand's per capita income of $105 a year) if they will join forces with the Laotian Reds...
...fighting there, for the lack of airfields, railroads and good roads would make it tough to sustain operations. But if the Pathet Lao showed an inclination to sweep all the way south, the U.S. forces in Thailand might well have to move across the Mekong and occupy the Laotian capital of Vientiane and other strategic points in the valley...
...Laos should fall to the Reds, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh trail (see map), the supply route which cuts through the Laotian thickets to Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam, would open up, permitting the Reds to pour arms and men into that embattled land. Control of Laos' Mekong River valley would also give the Communists a highway for subversion of neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, which in turn would increase Red pressure on Burma and Malaya...
...plain is named for the scores of large, stone burial urns dotting the area, in which the ancestral ashes of the Laotian people were once deposited. Both the Pathet Lao and the neutralists avoid fighting near the jars, for Laotian tradition holds that the penalty for disturbing them is a violent and fiery retribution from the spirits within...