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...long the big silver planes roared in over the Plain of Jars and touched down in a rooster tail of dust on the dirt strip at Lat Sen. There were Air America Caribous, C-123s and two four-engined C-130s borrowed from U.S. Air Force bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
...final flight carried out the last 26 refugees. In 1960 the plain had supported about 150,000 people. Now after a decade of constant if relatively low-level fighting, there are no civilians left. Lat Sen's houses are empty. Abandoned dogs, forming into packs, fight over the last few scraps of food...
...loyal to the government in Saigon. In 1960, Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, a popular Kontum parish priest, was ambushed by Viet Cong who drove bamboo spears through his body, then machine-gunned him to death. In 1961, the Viet Cong shot and killed two Vietnamese National Assemblymen near Da Lat...
...familiar one in Russia. A crowd of friends and supporters of the accused had come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing...
...defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant...