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Thursday, January 5 LAOS: THE FORGOTTEN WAR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of three shows called "The Battle for Asia," this one documents the war in Laos and the life of the Meo tribesmen, who are doing most of the fighting against the Communists...
Working mainly with the more numerous Meo, Yao, Lisu, Lahu and Akha tribesmen, the border patrol has built two major "development centers" and three more are under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag...
...unthinkable as Juliet without Ro meo. Yet Lynn Fontanne, 78, theater's grande dame, announced that she would make her first appearance in 38 years without Husband Alfred Lunt. TV fans will get the chance to see if the flame's the same next season when Fontanne plays the dowager empress in NBC's Hallmark production of Anastasia. Alfred will not be left home to tend the petunias. He is scheduled to direct the Metropolitan Opera's new version of La Traviata at the same time. And as his wife says, "When Alfred is working with...
...chased such business when some other lines were hesitant, its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Air Services, has built a considerable enterprise in South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, where it is second in activity only to Air America (TIME, June 3). Its motley of 42 planes airlifts rice to Meo tribesmen beleaguered by Red rebels and might just be flying arms and men for the CIA and the Pentagon. Says Salinger dryly: "In Viet Nam we fly personnel and supplies around the country. Some of the landing strips aren't very far from the Viet Cong operations...
Though Laos has been relatively peaceful for the past two years, Air America has continued to drop hundreds of tons of rice to the displaced Meo tribesmen. Says one pilot: "There is a whole generation of Meos who are going to be damn surprised when someone tells them that rice doesn't grow...