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Neutralist General Kong Le launched a counterattack against the Pathet Lao but was unable to dislodge them from the hills above Mobile Group 13's escape route. With the help of several defecting neutralist battalions, the Reds smashed their way through Kong Le's headquarters at Muong Phanh, and turned to head for the Mekong River. A courageous but often inept commander, Kong Le fell back with his battered troops to Ban Na, on the southwestern edge of the plain. He managed to salvage ten tanks, but lost nine armored cars and four antiaircraft guns. All week long...
...artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack our forces...
...tactic is to play one ally against the other. For a thousand years, China dominated Viet Nam. and it was from China that Ho Chi Minh got the supplies to win at Dienbienphu. More recently, Peking sent him 8,000 technicians, is building him a steel mill and training Muong tribesmen...
About the only group that has so far benefited from the revolution is the dongchi, as the Communist cadres are called. Most are veterans of the Viet Minh fight against the French, and many are from the primitive hill tribes. Says Hanoi Newsman Thai Zuy, a Muong tribesman and a veteran of nine years with the Viet Minh: "We were savages. We had no schools, doctors-nothing. The French did nothing to help. Now my mother is eating rice for the first time in her life, and she is learning to read. A railroad has been built to our village...
Prince Boun Oum's U.S.-supplied army moved north on the road from Vientiane to take the village of Muong Kassy. But immediately after the battle, the battalion commander, Colonel Oudone Sananikone, flew back by helicopter to Vientiane for a civilized French dinner at the Settha Palace Hotel. Both sides seemed interested in saving their skins, and their bargaining points, until the rest of the world got them out of trouble. "We have been frightened long enough," said Minister Nhouy. "Let others worry...