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...three weeks, the Red forces, reinforced by cadres of Viet Minh troop commanders, mortar specialists and artillery advisers from Communist North Viet Nam, had been nibbling away at neutralist positions around the 30-mile perimeter of the grassy, pool-table-flat Plaine des Jarres. Strategically placed in the center of Laos, the plain-named after the ancient stone burial jars still found in the area-controls the approaches to the rest of the country and is the primary access route to North Viet Nam. With the Plaine des Jarres in their hands, the Reds could solidify their hold...
Moving over the mountaintops and through the passes girdling the plain, the Reds at last surrounded the six-mile-long plateau. From the heights, the Communists laid a mortar barrage on the airfield, Kong Le's last remaining lifeline to Vientiane. With the airstrip inoperable, Kong Le was forced to rely on runners as his primary means of communication; he had no choice but to pull together what was left of his shattered forces and move off the plain...
...Foreign Lackeys." Trouble began when the Pathet Lao, supported by the Viet Minh, opened fire on a group of Kong Le's soldiers fishing in their off-duty hours near the town of Khang Khay. Then the Reds advanced on the neutralist stronghold at Xiengkhouang, and launched a mortar barrage that forced Kong Le's forces out of the town. With full-scale civil war threatening to break out on the Plaine des Jarres, Kong Le evacuated the wives and children of his men to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. As the bedraggled neutralist forces...
...tower of education's "massive walls and large windowless areas" shone like alabaster in the reproduction. In fact they will be the familiar mottled red, broken most months by bare, scraggly Ivy vines. Before many years in the local air, the red will lose its luster, the mortar will turn dull grey...
...independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit to a new imperialism, more ruthless, more powerful and more deadly in its pursuit of power than any this hemisphere has known. We will build a wall around Cuba-not a wall of mortar or brick or barbed wire, but a wall of dedicated men determined to protect their freedom and sovereignty...