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Already the seeds of Communism had been sown in Laos, and they would doubtless sprout and grow during any drawn-out peace conference. But in the long perspective of the battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold...
...Well-Loaded Pistol Is Cocked & Ready Whether the outcome for Laos is battle or bargaining, true Laotian independence depends ultimately on the U.S.'s ability to apply its power on short notice in an awkward area. This is how that power was poised last week...
WASHINGTON(UPI)--in his news conference last night President Kennedy referred to Laos as Lah-ahs. Reporters asking the questions called it Louse, one syllable. A call to the Laotian embassy brought this response from the charge disaffaire...
...country where 90% of the people are farmers). The soldiers got shiny U.S. equipment and instruction as to its use from a band of U.S. soldiers in mufti euphemistically called the Programs Evaluation Office (since technically only the French, under Geneva's terms, were supposed to train Laotian soldiers...
Trouble was that the 29,000-man army, which even the Pentagon thought too large by at least a third, had no interest in fighting, particularly against other Laotians. In fact, Laotians who joined the ranks did not consider it a fighting job but a pleasant civil-service type career whose $130-a-year pay was twice the average Laotian income...