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Marching north to do battle with the Communists, Royal Laotian soldiers tossed hand grenades in the Nam Song River and jumped in afterward to scoop up the stunned banana fish that floated to the surface. They swam, roasted pigs and fish over open fires, and drank plenty of Mekong rice whisky, paid for by their commanding officer and flown in every day by Sikorsky helicopters manned by U.S. civilian pilots...
Neutralists and the nervous complained that by supplying the T-6s, the U.S. had risked "provoking" the Communists into expanding the war. Current U.S. policy is still to seek a negotiated solution. But while the international dickering goes on, the U.S. made plain its intention to help the Laotian government in its fight against the Communists. Demanded one harrassed U.S. official in Vientiane...
...What are we supposed to do-let the Russians keep pouring their guns and ammunition in? And once the Communists are ready, is the Laotian government supposed to lie down and let the Communists walk over them...
...steel-mesh runway of Wattay Airport in Vientiane, a group of athletic-looking Americans in bright sports shirts and baseball caps busily loaded machine-gun belts and rockets aboard the four new T-6 "training" planes of the Royal Laotian Army. Not far away, behind a desk littered with documents stamped "secret," was their shirt-sleeved boss-former Brigadier General John Arnold Heintges, 48. The general tells his visitors: "Call me mister...
That agreement declared that only the French could advise the Laotian army-a clause that ignored the fact that the French had never shown much interest in train citizens of their former colony for anything. The U.S. was authorized only to supply the army's hardware and pick up the bill for its troops' pay and maintenance. As millions of dollars worth of U.S. military aid to Laos rotted through the years from improper care, the U.S. decided it had to tackle the problem itself. The instrument chosen was a State Department outfit called the Programs Evaluation Office...