Word: laotians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indeed been conducting intensive aerial reconnaissance over South China, North Viet Nam and the Laotian panhandle-where two U.S. jets were downed last week by Communist fire (see THE WORLD). All these neighborhoods would be staging areas for troop concentrations if the Viet Nam war were to escalate...
...into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos and the sea. One pilot died, while the second was rescued by helicopter, and a typical Laotian muddle ensued...
...Chinese and their Hanoi allies claimed that the "American air pirates" had been violating North Viet Nam's air space. Washington officials maintained that the planes had been clearly within the Laotian border, stressed the fact that escorting jets had "retaliated" with guns and rockets against the Communist antiaircraft batteries-probably Soviet-designed 1,4.5-mm. machine guns mounted on fast-moving armored cars...
Nibbling at the Edges. Thus, under apparently more favorable consideration are such notions as launching air strikes against the Laotian section of the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam or pressuring Cambodia, which serves as a sanctuary for Viet Cong raiders, by cutting off Cambodian shipping that moves down the Mekong River through South Viet Nam to the sea. "We shall start," said a high State Department official, "by nibbling around at the edges...
...Reds' setbacks are the result of a stiffer U.S. and Laotian government policy. U.S.-supplied T-28s are crippling Pathet Lao supply lines. The Reds could counterattack massively on the ground, but they apparently fear U.S. retaliation. Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma has survived with the help of the rightists, who have not tried a coup to take over the government for fully six months-although there has been an occasional, embarrassing mutiny among neutralist soldiers. During a recent Paris conference of the Laotian factions, Souvanna stood firm against unilateral concessions to the Reds. King Savang Vatthana got so vexed...