Word: pathet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese and their Pathet Lao allies have, in turn, been careful not to succeed too well in their continual skirmishing with Royal Lao troops. Overdoing it on the Lao battlefields would upset the precarious balance between the two halves of Laos-and thus justify allied intervention under the Geneva treaty. But last week that balance was in danger of being tipped. In eastern Laos the Communists were creating a major staging area for an attack across the border at U.S. Marine positions south of the DMZ. In northern Laos, North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao soldiers inflicted a major defeat...
...town of Nam Bac sits in a fertile valley astride communication routes from Dienbienphu in North Viet Nam to Communist areas of Laos, and was an important Royalist island in Pathet Lao territory. The Royalists had taken the town from the Reds two years ago, started a rural-development program, and promised the peasants that they would defend them...
Since nearly half of the divided country is in Communist hands and contains some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops and an equal number of indigenous Pathet Lao guerrillas, any Communist offensive is a serious matter, but the current one is probably not an all-out drive. This is the beginning of the dry season and the end of the rice harvest, an annual time of skirmishing and rice foraging by the Communists. Still, they are not completely safe in their sanctuary. The U.S. regularly flies bombing runs into Laos, and U.S. warplanes in the past several weeks are reported...
...what is left of the Chinese population after last year's massacre. It has long aided the guerrillas in Thailand's northeast, recently drew neutralist Prince Sihanouk's ire for attempting the same thing in Cambodia. And the Chinese have continued, of course, to supply the Pathet Lao guerrillas of Laos with arms, aid and propaganda backing...
After five years of sporadic skirmishing, the royalist and neutralist armies have lately begun to gather momentum in their internal struggle with the Pathet Lao, who control some 35% of the country. Pathet Lao strength has dropped from 35,000 to 30,000 in the past year. During the same period, some 3,000 defectors and refugees have fled Communist rule, bringing accounts of food shortages, forced labor, and falling Pathet Lao morale. Increasingly, the Royal Laotian Army finds its field enemy to be North Vietnamese regulars rather than the Pathet...