Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laotian forces under General Vang Pao scored a success of sorts by reoccupying Sam Thong, a U.S. refugee aid base. Fearful of U.S. airpower, the enemy had never fully occupied Sam Thong, simply remaining in the hills. Vang Pao took an active role near his threatened base at Long Cheng. An enemy mortar position was giving his troops severe trouble, and counterbattery fire had failed to knock it out. Vang Pao, with U.S. Ambassador George Godley as a witness, sighted along the barrel of a 105-mm. howitzer as if it were a squirrel rifle and barked instructions. The first...
Coup Rumors. In Laos, the question was how far the six battalions of North Vietnamese troops that were probing Laotian defenses around Long Cheng intended to go. Would they overrun the base and keep moving right to the plains just north of Vientiane? A major push seemed several days off at least, but U.S. advisers and government defenders prepared a fallback position at Ban Son, 20 miles south of the base. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes continued to bomb Communist supply routes across northern Laos. Despite U.S. estimates that the air attacks have inflicted 20% casualties on Communist units, the bombing...
...common denominator in the current turmoil is the North Vietnamese infantryman, and his presence in sizable numbers in supposedly neutral lands. Hanoi's forces long ago took on the burden of the Laos campaign from the ineffectual, home-grown Pathet Lao. Neither the frangible Laotian regulars nor the lightly armed, CIA-backed Meo guerrillas of Laotian General Vang Pao have been able to withstand them. In Cambodia, it was North Viet Nam's freewheeling use of Cambodian territory that finally precipitated Sihanouk's ouster. With the U.S. withdrawal under way, Sihanouk grew increasingly alarmed that the presence...
...civilians, have died in Laos under enemy fire. The credibility flap provided a new, irresistible opportunity for congressional critics of U.S. Asian policy. The major challenge came from J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Last week, in an effort to maintain congressional control over the Laotian war, the Arkansas Democrat introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution that the President could not employ ground-or air-forces in Laos without "affirmative action" by Congress...
...prince's public line comforted Washington, but one high Administration official confesses that "we still don't know what Souphanouvong may be telling his half brother." Eventually, the Laotian government could bend to Communist pressure and ask the U.S. to stop the bombing. In that case, Washington would face a hard choice. It could either risk a political outcry by continuing the raids, or it could stop the raids and risk giving the North Vietnamese the opportunity for still greater mischief in the big war next door...