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...forces, as do unmarked helicopters piloted by Americans. Air America planes are dropping $3,500,000 worth of food a year to some 125,000 refugees at 86 remote sites-refugees who might otherwise have to turn to the Communists for survival. Among them are several thousand Meo tribes men who, freed from the necessity of tilling the rice fields, wage hit-and-run guerrilla warfare against the Communists in Pathet Lao-controlled areas of northern Laos...
Ruefully admitting that his soldiers "are not doing so well" against the guerrillas, he ordered reinforcements sent to the besieged province. >In Thailand, where a Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General...
...experience in Asia, she canceled several public appearances. She did manage some serious shopping, buying a 15th century bronze hand of Buddha, two gilt wooden hands (17th century), three porcelain cosmetic jars from the ruined ancient capital of Ayutthaya, and three solid silver bracelets made by Thailand's Meo hill tribesmen...
...Modern Warlord. The squabble is not concerned with the growing or gathering of opium; that job belongs for the most part to such primitive tribesmen as the Meo, Ekaw, Bolong, Wa and Yao, who slit the poppy-seed pods for their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
...commanders and Deputy Premier Leuam Insisiengmay. Souvanna also faced trouble in the north, where Guerrilla Leader Vang Pao had picked his own candidates, afraid that the military rightists led by General Kouprasith Abhay, Souvanna's chief backer, would become too powerful and attempt to bring his anti-Communist Meo tribesmen under Royal Army control...