Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northern Laos, two Communist battalions struck last week at government positions north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, having taken the strategic valley of Nam Bac in January. In central Laos, two battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar...
...remote sites-refugees who might otherwise have to turn to the Communists for survival. Among them are several thousand Meo tribes men who, freed from the necessity of tilling the rice fields, wage hit-and-run guerrilla warfare against the Communists in Pathet Lao-controlled areas of northern Laos...
After more than three decades of seat-of-the-pants competition, two of Alaska's pioneer bush airlines have joined forces and moved toward the jet age. Wien Alaska and Northern Consolidated Airlines, with total revenues of $12 million, this month merged their 8,500-mile routes, named the company Wien Alaska Airlines, and went public...
...Raymond I. Petersen ar rived from Chicago and formed a flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...
SPRING comes late to Wisconsin, and northern farmers often wait well into April for the first robin, which heralds the start of the planting season...