Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obsession with the need for friendly, or, at worst, safely neutral buffer states on all its borders. With luck the Chinese could hope to topple Phoui's government and force a more sympathetic regime into power; more modestly, they could almost certainly count on occupying Laos' northern provinces, thus creating a "sanitized" zone on China's southern frontier...
...steamy Laos capital of Vientiane early last week, Defense Secretary Phoumi Nosavan 'bubbled with optimism over his army's successes in combating Communist guerrilla attacks on the northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. "In a month it will all be over," he predicted, adding only as an afterthought, "unless there is an attack from North Viet...
...tactics of psychological warfare were working fine last week among the primitive and superstitious northern tribesmen of Laos, in the provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua on the border of Communist North Viet Nam. It was these northern areas, occupied by the Communists until 1957, that the insurgents seemed most determined to conquer. Often, villages were occupied without a fight. In some, families packed hastily and paddled away in dugout canoes, leaving their villages half empty as the terrorists approached. Last week the banks of the Mekong at the royal capital of Luangpra-bang were dotted with bamboo huts built...
With the decline of such established feuding centers as Corsica, Sicily and Harlan County, Ky., the killingest people on earth today may well be the citizens of Ilocos Sur province (pop. 275,000) in northern Luzon. There, long before dusk, nervous wives set out the evening meal and draw the shutters, for, as the local saying goes, when the sun sets, blood begins to flow. Last year 87 murders were recorded in the province, and no one knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital...
...Puro Pinget, a stone's throw away, a dozen murders have taken place in the past year over a faction fight that has split the northern and southern sections of the village into warring groups. Puro Pinget's new village boss, elected fortnight ago by unanimous vote, is 37-year-old David Torda, currently out on bail on a charge of killing a 72-year-old neighbor in June...