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...during the battle for Vientiane last December. Fortnight ago he wangled his way into the rebel-held Plaine des Jarres for a startling report on the Communist arms buildup there (TIME, March 10). Karnow himself talked to a vast collection of sources: princes, diplomats, generals, former Viet Minh officers and Pathet Lao guerrillas...
During a week at the rebel stronghold in north-central Laos, reports Wilde, "I was followed wherever I went." The Viet Minh "technicians," who are manning everything from the howitzers to the hospital, made threatening gestures whenever he came near. "The Russians were of course furious at my taking pictures of their planes. At one point, there was some question whether they would transport me back to Pnompenh. But Souvanna intervened, and I was taken along...
...command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian assault guns and 60-and 81-mm. mortars. In the hills around the plain are new Russian 85-mm. cannon manned by Viet Minh "technicians." The Viet Minh are everywhere. They drive trucks, operate radios, build roads, teach tactics, run a 300-bed hospital in an assembly of tents and shacks. In the village of Phongsavan, a Viet Minh "people's store"dispenses cigarettes, food and a sweet North Vietnamese liquor called moka...
Missing Town. Reports from the remote battlefront were hard as ever to decipher. Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh called in newsmen one day and announced that "three battalions of Russians, Pathet Lao and Viet Minh" had just invaded from North Viet Nam near the town of Ban Le. But when pressed, Information Minister Bouavan had to admit that he had no idea where Ban Le was. All that seemed to be going on for sure was a buildup by both sides around the Plaine des Jarres, the strategic central plateau captured by pro-Communist Captain Kong Le a week earlier with...
Russian planes were still flying supplies to Kong Le and reportedly a few trained Viet Minh cadres as well. The Laotians still could not capture any North Vietnamese invaders, but they rounded up enough Communist-supplied arms to put on an impressive show in Vientiane for U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown. Some shells bore Chinese markings. But, ironically, most of the display could be identified as U.S.-made munitions, allegedly captured by the Viet Minh from the French at Dienbienphu...