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...beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...
...Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
...Minh Trail, which parallels the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. There is no interference from Laos, which may even be a supplier, since daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet Lao army. Neutral Cambodia is apparently too weak to police its own frontiers. Should the pro-Western government of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem fall before the Communists, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Malaya will have little chance of staying free...
...number" have been injured. Among the MAAG men who have survived the perils of duty in Laos is U.S. Army Captain Carl J. Nagle, 33, a tough product of U.S. Special Forces (guerrilla warfare) training. Earlier this month, he and his helicopter crew of three were shot down by Pathet Lao gunfire while on a mission to the Meo country. Wasting no time, Nagle and his helicopter crew grabbed a survival kit and headed for the cover of the jungle. Not long ago, another helicopter crew, forced down by gunfire, stuck by their stricken craft to wait for rescue...
...rescue helicopter. "Nobody enjoys an experience like that," said Captain Nagle, "but that is what you're trained to meet." And last week he was right back on the job. He had reached the Meos at last, was teaching the tribesmen new techniques for fighting the Communist Pathet Lao rebels...