Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, Kennedy was evidently considering basing American war planes in Laos as early as 1961, three years before the first large-scale American attacks on insurgent areas of Laos, and almost nine years before stepped-up systematic bombing of the Laotian Plaine des Jarres made refugees of 600,000 people...
...Seno airport near Savannakhet could handle 60 stories by C-124 and C-130 aircraft daily, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Kennedy in August 1961, in response to his "expressed interest in the current status" of two Laotian fields...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) was another softliner on a number of issues. The day after Kennedy's inauguration, Mansfield relayed to him Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma's complaints about U.S. overreaction to Laotian communists and obstruction of Phouma's neutralist policy. "These shortcomings, in my opinion, exist not only in Laos but elsewhere in comparable situations around the world," Mansfield added...
...Communists seem to be even more ambitious. There is evidence that they are attempting to establish a supply route running along the Laotian and Cambodian borders from the demilitarized zone down to Loc Ninh inside South Viet Nam. A major obstacle to setting up the route was a string of 50 ARVN outposts in the wooded, hilly Central Highlands. Many were lost in the 1972 offensive. In the past three months, South Vietnamese troops have been pushed out of most of the remaining camps...
Both Communist and non-Communist Laotians are looking to Souvanna Phouma for guidance. He is expected to shortly announce the convening of a joint commission charged with carrying out the peace agreement. According to Souvanna, the coalition government will be formed by Oct. 10. He believes that the threat of a Communist takeover in Laos has been exaggerated. "The Laotian people," he confided to friends, "are too easygoing to be Communists...