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...system "calls for a year of very careful planning before we leap into the bricks-and-mortar stage," President Bunting cautioned. On June 29 and 30 the College will sponsor a conference of approximately 15 anthropologists, sociologists, industrial designers, and architects to discuss plans for the living units...
...warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where Meo tribesmen gathered as many as 400 strong to greet their new weapons and instructors. The Meo's Colonel Vang Phao now runs a mortar and rifle range in the mountains with U.S. help. One Meo guerrilla band ambushed a Pathet Lao column last week, killed 30 and wounded some 60 more...
...intelligible language is trying to rationalize the irrational." The rational order came only after a three-man, seven-month job of covering the running story on Laos' little war. TIME Correspondent Jerry Schecter bounced about the front in single-engined planes. Correspondent James Wilde narrowly escaped death when mortar fragments riddled his MG 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...
...says. "Our business is military." Heintges keeps 66 men in Vientiane, has the rest scattered over the country in eight field training teams. They ride pony-back over mountain trails to supervise front-line delivery of medicine, food and pay (all U.S.-supplied). Tough ex-sergeants direct rifle and mortar practice (but the teaching of tactics is banned, since it has nothing to do directly with the handling of U.S. equipment). A priority job for his men these days: seeing that expensive parachutes, used in supply drops, wind up back in packs rather than on native girls. "One principal concern...
Warfare is not in character for Laotians, a gentle people given to indolence, rice wine and frequent Buddhist festivals. But one noon last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...