Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Military sources reported yesterday that 3000 American-trained Laotian hill tribesmen, led by agents of the Central Intelligence Agency, have moved into the Ho Chi Minh trail complex in Laos...
...fighter and 15 helicopters have been lost in the Laotian operation, according to the U.S. command. Other gources have reported that about 15 other helicopters have been shot down but recovered. These losses were not included by the command in the total of U.S. helicopters lost...
...hotels. No American girl who values her reputation enters the Continental bar/lobby; here the French drinking companions are American pilots-employed by Air America, paid by the CIA, earning $1000 a week for airlifting "rice" to tribal villagers, drowning out the echoes of antiaircraft fire with dope and liquor. "Laotian neutrality" and American "food aid" are pretty good jokes when you're ripped...
...everybody laughing? Laugh and the world laughs with you. (The joke is on the people who are crying, the refugees, the bombed-out villagers, the farmers whose land now resembles the surface of the moon . . . . ) Our good radical mental picture of the long-suffering Asian leaves out the Laotian who is getting a good laugh and a fat pocketbook out of the American colonial ego trip...
Gunners brought down two more U.S. helicopters with a reported loss of three men killed and three wounded. A total of 15 American helicopters have now been lost in the Laotian operation, while 11 Americans have been killed, 12 have been wounded, and two are missing...