Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Recruits. With no cease-fire assured, the U.S. got a guerrilla operation of its own going in Laos. The main recruits: anti-Communist Meo tribesmen, a rugged breed who live only above 3,000 ft., raise opium and Husky-like white dogs. (Standing advice to U.S. pilots: "If you're shot down, find yourself a Meo and hang onto him for dear life. Those little guys will save your hide.") Last week U.S. guerrilla warfare experts, members of a new outfit called the Liaison Training and Advisory Group (LTAG), helicoptered into mountain valleys behind the enemy lines, where...
...less a single country than an archipelago of small, lush river valleys, cut off from each other by sharp mountains and limestone plateaus where roam the elephant, tiger and gaur. In winter, the hills of Laos are alight with opium poppies, and in summer the floods brought by the monsoon rains lap under the stilted houses and over the 500 miles of meandering dirt roads. Years ago, someone built a railroad station in Savannakhet, but never got around to building a railroad. The Me kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed...
...five years of covering Indo-China, first for Associated Press and then for TIME, Ottawa-born James Wilde has made friends ranging from opium smugglers and pedicab drivers to Buddhist priests and politicians...
...sisters' Muse. Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and the lesser novels might never have been written if Branwell had not sparked his sisters' preteenage imaginations. Branwell himself reached manhood only to disintegrate. Ravaged by gin, opium, epilepsy, and an anguished sense of guilt, he died at 31. Branwell's own dying words might have been spoken by a more melancholy Sydney Carton: "In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good...
...some 2,000 stayed on. Sheltered by the natives, many of whom were openly hostile to the government in Rangoon, the troops married local women, made a living by processing opium in homemade stills set up in the bush. Occasionally they slipped across the Red Chinese frontier to pillage border villages. The bandits' activities were a troublesome irritant to the Burmese government, which feared that the rebels' raids might provoke Red China into moving into Burma against them in force. Said one Burmese army officer: "We simply have to get rid of those guys...