Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Xieng Ngeun, twelve miles from the ancient capital city of Luang Prabang, and the only exit from the valley was guarded by two Royal Laotian battalions and a detachment of paratroopers. The other was stationed on the wide Plaine des Jarres in north Laos, surrounded by four heavily armed loyal battalions. The Royal Laos handed ultimatums to the Reds, giving them the choice of surrendering their arms and being integrated, or being wiped out; food supplies were cut off. At Xieng Ngeun, his hungry men on the edge of mutiny, the Red commander capitulated, marched out of the valley...
Told of the surrender at Xieng Ngeun, the Red battalion on the Plaine des Jarres promised its own answer at noon the next day. The loyal troops surrounding them gave their future brothers-in-arms food and water, fraternized openly. Vigilance relaxed. And when the loyal troops awoke next morning, they found the Reds had decamped during the night, taking their women and children with them...
...Ouane came storming up to the Plaine des Jarres. ordered paratroops dropped to block the four escape routes to the North Viet Nam border, where Communist Ho Chi Minh was eager to welcome his fleeing comrades from Laos. The stumbling flight of the Reds was halted by armed peasants loyal to the government, who fired on them. The pursuing royal troops closed in, and General Ouane demanded surrender by dawn...
...army has its "sinners and wrongdoers" inclined to "fascism." The army does not want to make a martyr of him. But for repeating his slogans in villages two of his young partisans have been charged with sedition. When another U Nu supporter was arrested, 500 of his party members, loyal to the new spirit of jolly nonviolence, embarrassed the cops by banging on cymbals, playing flutes, and beating drums in a shrill crescendo of musical disapproval...
...attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious to public morals." Her flock stayed ferociously loyal as the case was tried on the front pages and wound its way in and out of court...